Tushnóva graduated from high school where she had pursued advanced studies of foreign languages. 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. At this time she married a psychiatrist named George Rozinsky. She moved to Moscow and was admitted to
Gorky Literary Institute in 1941, but never finished it because of the beginning of the
war. She served in World War II as a medical assistant in military hospitals. Her first works were printed in 1944. She published several collections of poems:
First Book (1945),
Pathway (1954). 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. One of her most popular poems was ''They don't renounce loving''. It was performed as
a song by
Alla Pugacheva. She also worked as a literary translator. She died from cancer in Moscow on July 7, 1965. ==Family==