Education
Moscow State University. Art Theatre School at the Moscow Art Theater.
Moscow State University. Art Theatre School at the Moscow Art Theater.
She starred as Pierre Bezukhov"s wife Elena Kuragina Bezukhova in the juggernaut War and Peace - a husband-wife pairing, as Pierre was played by Sergei himself. She semi-retired in the 1980s, but has made some appearances on television since. Honoured Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1965).