叶夫根尼娅·高雷恩奇克，Evgenia (Yevgeniya) Golynchik was the student at the Leningrad Theatre and Film Institute under Sergey Gerasimov. There she met Georgi Zhzhyonov and they were married in 1936. She was trying to help Zhzhyonov after his arrest and imprisonment in the NKVD (KGB) prison in Leningrad. Their separation was forced by his arrest by the KGB.