After completing her medical school studies, she found little satisfaction in being a doctor and turned her attention to writing.

After graduating, at the insistence of her father, who wanted her to be a doctor, she entered the Leningrad Medical Institute where she studied for four years prior to 1935.

In 1936, after the death of her father and mother, she moved back to Leningrad, where she received her medical degree, but she found little satisfaction in being a doctor.

She moved to Moscow and was admitted to Gorky Literary Institute in 1941, but never finished it because of the beginning of the war.

Her keen lyrical talent was revealed in the collections Memory of the Heart (1958), One Hundred Hours of Happiness (1965) and others, in which she writes about higher love and calls for truly human relations among people.