Circus artist, tiger trainer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/15/1958). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Childhood passed in the city of Pushkin, Leningrad Region. Her father was a forester, and her mother was a teacher. The Nazarovs moved to Daugavpils in the early 1940s, and during the war the 15-year-old Margarita was hijacked to work in ...