The film turned so successful (10th place at the Soviet box office with 31.83 million viewers[4]) that Chulyukin invited her to act in his second movie — Devchata that was finished in 1961.

Same year she reunited with Belov and Kozhevnikov in the comedy Queen of the Gas Station shot at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.

Once again, it turned into one of the box office leaders (5th place with 34.3 million viewers[6]) and remains among the most beloved Soviet comedy films up till these days.

[7] Around the same time Rumyantseva married a Soviet diplomat Villi Khshtoyan who worked at the Ministry of International Trade of the USSR.

They spent nearly 15 years abroad, which she fully dedicated to her husband and his daughter from the first marriage (she couldn't give birth to her own children).

Her husband — a former boxer — managed to stop them, but she was hit on the head by one of the robbers which led to serious damage and frequent pain.