Born on 27 April 1987, in Moscow, into a musical family, she started learning piano at the age of three with her mother, Lyubov Chistiakova, and Helena Khoven. From 1993 to 2005, she studied with Khoven and Anatoly Ryabov at the Central School of Music attached to the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 2014, she graduated from the Conservatory and took a postgraduate course with Mikhail Voskresensky. She is now studying with Boris Petrushansky at the ‘Incontri col Maestro’ academy in Imola. She is a prize-winner of more than thirty international competitions, including a Chopin Competition for Young Pianists, the Scriabin Competition in Moscow, the Emil Gilels in Odessa, Maria Callas in Athens and Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano, and also the China International Piano Competition. She has also been a juror of youth and international piano competitions. She has performed solo and with orchestra in nearly all the countries of Europe, as well as in Japan, and has appeared on radio and television several times.