Sofiya Pilyavskaya,Sofya Stanislavovna Pilyavskaya spent practically all of her life, from 1928 to 2000, working in the famed Moscow Artistic Academic Theatre. There she met her husband, the actor Nikolai Dorohin who died in 1954 of a heart attack. She never remarried. A student of K.S. Stanislavsky and V.E.