Background
After graduating, at the insistence of her father, who wanted her to be a doctor, she entered the Leningrad Medical Institute where she studied for four years prior to 1935.
After graduating, at the insistence of her father, who wanted her to be a doctor, she entered the Leningrad Medical Institute where she studied for four years prior to 1935.
Tushnova graduated from high school where she had pursued advanced studies of foreign languages.
She served in World War 2. Her first works were printed in 1944. She published several collections of poems: First Book (1945), Pathway (1954).
Her keen lyrical talent was revealed in the collections Memory of the Heart (1958), One Hundred Hours of Happiness (1965) and others, in which she writes about higher love and calls for truly human relations among people.
She also worked as a literary translator. She died from cancer in Moscow on July 7, 1965.
In her last years Tushnova was involved in an affair with the poet Alexander Yashin, but he couldn"t leave his family (Yashin had four children). Yashin died exactly three years after Tushnova, also from cancer.