Her grandfather was devoted to the violin and her grandmother, Alexandra Urievna Zograf-Dulov studied the piano with Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory; then she became a favorite pupil of Tchaikovsky.
Vera's mother, Maria Andreyevna Dulova (Bukovskaya) was a soprano singer, a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
The students of the Conservatory gave concerts often; and her earnings contributed to the family's livelihood that became harder by the wartime circumstances.
In spite of her princely ancestry and her fame, Dulova did not emigrate from the Soviet Union and represented her homeland proudly abroad.
In 1942 during World War II, the Bolshoi artists were evacuated to Kuybyshev where she met and made friends with Dmitri Shostakovich.
In 1946 two of her former students from the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music School, S. Maikov and A. Kaplyuk, - with Dulova's expert assistance -, created the first Russian harp.
On several occasions, she participated in arranging seminars on harp playing for master-classes at Hartford University (USA) with Aristid von Würtzler.
From the 1960s, Dulova-schools or Russian-schools were formed in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, China, United States, Brazil, Venezuela and elsewhere; the students could acquire her special harp technique there.
She had had numerous Soviet and foreign contemporary composer friends, e.g. Alexander Mosolov, Sergei Vasilenko, Lev Knipper, Jevgenia Golubeva, Paul Hindemith, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Benjamin Britten and André Jolivet.