Tatiana Dokoudovska was born on 13 January 1921 in Beausoleil, France, near Monte Carlo, from Alexis and Nadia Dokoudovsky.

[1][2] His father was the son of a Russian nobleman and the Italian grandfather of her mother Nadia, an opera singer.

[citation needed] A student of Olga Preobrajenska, prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial Theatre,[1] Dokoudovska at the age of 12 started her professional career, dancing in operettas and films.

While attending the Ecole des Artes (Professional School), she danced for the lyric season in Monte Carlo, then was hired as a soloist by the Ballet Russe de l'Opera Comique in Paris.

She was buried at Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City.