[1][2] Kosheverova was born in Saint Petersburg to Nikolai Kosheverov, a merchant with a house on Sergievskaya Street.
In the late twenties she studied at the Factory of the Eccentric Actor [Wikidata] (FEKS), an avant-garde acting collective.
In 1944 Kosheverova turned to the fairy tale genre, which would remain her main focus for the rest of her career.
[6] In 1963 Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro collaborated on Cain XVIII, a fairy tale film with political undertones, and a script by Nikolai Erdman.
The script was carefully revised to avoid giving offense to the censors, but a scene of cross-dressing infuriated Nikita Khrushchev, who ordered the film banned as "homosexual propaganda".