Born Nadiashda Kokaoulina in Siberia,[2] she graduated from the Women's University of Petrograd in 1903,[3] joined the Bolshevik Party after the 1905 Russian Revolution,[2] and took the name Galli upon marrying her first husband.
She graduated from the Women's University of Petrograd in 1903,[3] joined the Bolshevik Party after the 1905 Russian Revolution,[2] and took the name Galli upon marrying her first husband.
[4] In addition, Galli-Shohat is known for a biography of her nephew, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, coauthored by her and Victor Seroff.
Titled Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life and Background of a Soviet Composer, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943.
At Bryn Mawr College in 1935 she wrote the paper "A study, by means of Huygens principle, of the reflection of a spherical light wave from a moving plane mirror".