Among the students were such eminent people as the People's Artist of the USSR Faina Ranevskaya, artist Seraphima Blonskaya, poets Sophia Parnok and Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, an active member of Narodnaya Volya organization Nadezhda Sigida (Malaksiano), Anton Chekhov’s sister Maria.
She studied at the Mariinskaya Gymnasium in 1894–1903, traveled through Europe and then studied at the Geneva Conservatory, although a lack of financial means made her return to Taganrog in 1904.
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