[1] While performing at the Bolshoi, she met her husband, opera singer David Khristoforovich Yuzhin.
[1] Ermolenko-Yuzhina and her husband left the Bolshoi in 1908, and joined Sergei Zimin's opera company, remaining for two seasons.
She performed at the Bolshoi in 1913, 1916, and 1919, and she also with Sergei Diaghilev’s enterprise, and in various European opera houses, before the First World War.
[1][3] Ermolenko-Yuzhina was considered to be the leading Russian lyric-dramatic soprano of her day, with a repertoire of more than thirty roles, including Brunnhilde, Norma, Violette and Carmen.
She appeared for a time with Aleksey Tsereteli's opera company and at the Opéra national de Paris; she also gave private concerts.