- She helped to promote the works of Marc Chagall and Wassily Kandinsky, who were regarded as traitors for having left the Soviet Union for the West.
- During WWII, she worked at an ammunition factory and as a nurse at a military hospital.
- She was an art historian who headed up the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for more than 50 years. She joined the staff at the Pushkin after graduating from Moscow State University in 1945, a month before the end of WWII. She became the director in 1961 and remained in that role until 2013, when she became president. Her field of expertise was the Italian Renaissance.
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