Natalia Chakhovskaia was born on September 27, 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is known for From the East (1993). She was married to Boris Artemiev. She died on May 20, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.
Cellist, she was the first winner in 1962 of the Tchaïkovski cello competition. She was professor of cello at the Tchaïkovski school of music, succeeding in that job to Mstislav Rostropovich.