She is the daughter of prominent writer Aleksandra Iakovlevna.
Beneath long, nearly floor-length gowns, her dancers learned to walk on the very tips of their toes, resulting in the impression that they are floating or gliding across the stage.
[1] She based her dances on regional folk forms but had music specially composed for her troupe.
[3] The first performers of the dance "Beroyzka" were young collective farmers of the Kalinin (now Tver) region, participating in the festival of rural folk talent in 1948.
The performances involved twenty girls in long sundresses, stately and with a beautiful bearing, walking silently around the stage in a patterned dance, holding young birch branches in their hands.