Lubov Pavlovna Tchernicheva was born in St. Petersburg in 1890, and trained there at the Imperial Ballet Academy.

She created roles in The Good Humoured Ladies (1917), La Boutique Fantasque (1919), Pulcinella (1920), Les Noces (1924), Les Fâcheux (1924), Zéphire et Flore (1925), Jack-in-the-Box (1926), The Triumph of Neptune (1926), Le Pas d'acier (1927), Apollon musagète (1928),[3] The Gods Go a-Begging (1928), and Francesca da Rimini (1937).

[5] Her last dancing role was in 1957, at age 66, as Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at La Scala.

In the 1950s, Tchernicheva and her husband produced Russian ballets in London and New York,[6] [7] including a 1954 revival of The Firebird starring Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes.

[8] The couple were jointly honored with the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in 1966, for the services to dance.