Shortly after she left for Moscow where through her brother-in-law Boris Malinin she managed to audition in front of Fedor Shalyapin and later Sergei Zimin.
Ermolenko-Yuzhina and her husband left the Bolshoi in 1908, and joined Sergei Zimin's opera company, remaining for two seasons.
In 1915, she was singing in a Moscow cabaret when she was noticed by Sergei Zimin, director of the Zimin Opera, where she made her operatic debut in 1917, as Gilda in Rigoletto.
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