She was Stanislavsky's student and favorite, served her entire life at the Moscow Art Theater, and already at the very beginning of her career played characteristic old women. TV viewers recognized her by the image of the grandmother-storyteller from Alexander Rowe's fairy tale films. Off stage, she was unusually graceful, she had a lot of fans, Joseph Brodsky dedicated poems to her, a Japanese millionaire was ready to throw all his wealth at the feet of Anastasia Zueva. She experienced betrayal by her closest people, and then suffered incredibly from the consumerist attitude of her son, from whom she was separated for many years.