Career
Born in to a family of serf actors in Novgorod, she was the sister of the actress Hion Ivanovna Talanova (1822–1880), who was a star at the Maly Theatre (Moscow) 1860-1880. She acted on the stage in Nizhny Novgorod already as a child. In 1852, she debuted as an adult actress in Kazan.
She became one of the most famed tragediennes in 19th-century Russia, and it was said, that during the 1850s and 1860s, her name was known from Tver to Astrachan.
She toured all over Russia: Kazan, Orel, Saratov, Odessa and Kiev. She performed at the National Theater in Moscow (1872), in Saint St. Petersburg at the Alexandrinsky Theatre (1878-1882), and at the Malý Theater in Moscow (1891-1892).
