Evgenia Dontsova was born in the Russian city of Rostov in 1924. The artist arrived in Tbilisi during World War II as an evacuee. From 1942 to 1949, she studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in the Theater Decoration Faculty, where she was taught by David Kakabadze and Sergo Kobuladze. From 1950, she began her career at the Tbilisi Griboyedov Russian Drama Theatre: initially working under the guidance of Irina Shtenberg, and in 1964 she was appointed as the chief artist of the theater. She designed approximately 100 plays, with over 70 sets created for the Griboyedov Theatre. Her graphic and watercolor works, lithographs, and easel compositions are distinguished by high craftsmanship. The artist created sets for plays such as: “The Living Corpse” (L. Tolstoy, 1950), “The Dog in the Manger” (Lope de Vega, 1954), “The Law of Eternity” (N. Dumbadze), “The Sisters” (M. Bulgakov), and others. Her theatrical sets were distinguished by a bright, exciting, and emotional character; she always approached the creation of the artistic world on stage in an interesting way and expressed through her sets the inseparable unity of man and the material world surrounding him, time, and space, creating a world of emotional impact instead of resorting to copying. Dontsova also worked in various cities of the USSR: in 1973, at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, she created sets for the play “Sayat-Nova,” and in 1974, sets for the play “The Queen of Spades” were created by her authorship at the Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Many plays designed by Evgenia Dontsova gained great popularity and numerous state awards across the former Soviet Union.