Since childhood Tatiana loved animals, even her favorite toys were animals, and in school time she was deeply involved in reading books such as Grzhimek, Durrell, Goodall, Corbett, Anderson, Sladkov, Bianki, Drozdov etc.
Many of these books were illustrated by great wildlife artists such as Charushin, Kapustina, Vatagin, Gorbatov and others.