Career
Following graduation from the school, she was accepted into the ballet company of the Leningrad Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre (today the Mariinsky Theatre) in Leningrad in 1947. Moisseva became a leading soloist with the theatre's ballet troupe.
She performed the roles of the ballets produced by Leonid Yakobson (miniature “Mother” to music by Alexander Scriabin called Choreographic Miniatures), Yury Grigorovich (Mekhmeneh Banu in Aleksi Machavariani's The Legend of Love), Konstantin Sergeyev (Gertrude in Hamlet by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy) and Rostislav Zakharov (Carolina in Solovyov-Sedoy''s The Russia Entered the Port). Other roles Moisseva performed were as Odette-Odile in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Raymonda in Alexander Glazunov's Raymonda, Nikiya in Ludwig Minkus's La Bayadère, Syuimbike in Färit Yarullin's Shurale, Bianca in Machavariani's Othello, Kitri in Minkus's Don Quixote, Sari in Gara Garayev's The Path of Thunder, Princess Florine in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, Gertrude in Nikolai Chervinsky's Hamlet, Krivlyaka in Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella, Giselle in Adolphe Adam's ballet called Giselle, Aegina in Aram Khachaturian's Spartacus, Gayane in Khachaturian's Gayane, Elzevira in Oleg Karavaychuk's and Georgy Firtich's The Bedbug [ru], Zarema in Boris Asafyev's The Fountain of Bakhchisarai and as Laurencia in Alexander Krein's Laurencia. She stopped performing in 1973.
From 1972 to 1987, she was a choreographer and rehearsal teacher at the Kirov Theatre and trained several ballet soloists. Moissieva's pupils included the likes of Tatyana Amosova, Altynai Asylmuratova, Galina Mezentseva, Yulia Makhalina, Irma Nioradze, Olesya Novikova, Irina Zhelonkina and Svetlana Zakharova. She also taught in Edinburgh in 1990 and in Berlin in 1991 among other places, and was the lead juror of the Vaganova Prix in Saint Petersburg in 1998. Moisseva provided the following advice to students "Don't repeat, find your own".
