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in 1963. It was here that she discovered her talent as a writer and found her niche as a screenwriter. In her second year at the
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gender roles, which has led to
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Tokareva began working with various
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Bulashova, S. and I. Korchagina. "From an
Interview with Viktoriia Tokareva: December 1989." Interpretation of Artistic Texts. Ed. M. I. Gorelikova. Moscow: University of Moscow Press, 194-196.
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In this, too, Tokareva was unsuccessful. Realizing that she would never become a musician, she found work as a music teacher instead, in a school on the outskirts of
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Saint
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