Career
In 1993 she created a private museum of Russian folk costume and dolls (based on a collection of authentic samples of peasant clothes of the Voronezh province of the late XIX - early XX century, collected by G.Ya. Sysoeva during folklore expeditions). Together with another sister Z.Ya. Tkachevoy developed way of making souvenir dolls in folk costumes of various regions of the Center of Russia, as well as various ornaments and headdresses.