Born in the family of the famous Soviet lawyer Professor Yakov Mironovich Magaziner [ru] (1882–1961) and his wife Lydia Mikhailovna.

In 1937 she graduated from the Leningrad State University, finishing the courses of two sections - linguistic and literary, and was a disciple of Professors Mikhail P. Alexeyev [ru] and Viktor M. Zhirmunsky.

In 1943, in the World War II evacuation from besieged Leningrad to a small town of Kyshtym, she defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis «Китс и поэты Возрождения» ("Keats and Renaissance Poets").

The author of significant works on the writing of Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Dickens,[15][11] Stevenson, Shaw, Huxley.

The last decades of her teaching activity were spent[5] as a full professor at the Department of Foreign Literature of the Philological Faculty of Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, N. Ya.