Svetlana Meshcheryakova

Svetlana Dmitrievna Meshcheryakova is a pianist, based in Rostov.

Story
Despite her Russian name and upbringing, Svetlana was in fact adopted. According to her father, she was found as a war orphan in Manchuria in about 1901, and then brought back to Rostov where she grew up.

At a young age, Svetlana exhibited talent at the piano; in 1909, she was admitted into the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, where she graduated in 1913.