After the arrest and exile of her ex-husband , brother , sister and two brothers-in-law in 1937 during the Stalin Purges , Talyshinskaya was treated by government institutions with suspicion , sometimes to a point of being refused permission to go on tour . Despite being recognized as an Honoured Artist of Azerbaijan in 1940 , Talyshinskaya and her fourteen-year-old son Nazim were eventually exiled to Petropavlovlsk , Kazakhstan as " enemies of the people " in 1942 . She was later permitted to settle in Tashkent , Uzbekistan , where she managed to continue her career at the local philharmonic society . She soon met with the member of the USSR Council of Ministers Arts Committee and future Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Surin who had happened to know Talyshinskaya from a pop music contest in Moscow , in which she had participated and won back in 1938 . Following his approval , she left Tashkent for Tbilisi , Georgia to perform at the Tbilisi Azeri Drama Theatre , and later ( at the insistence of director Shamsi Badalbeyli ) at the Azerbaijan Musical Comedy Theatre , where she proved to be an outstanding comedy actress . In 1949 , her case was revoked and she was exiled to Central Asia for the second time . Talyshinskaya and her son were exonerated shortly after Soviet premier Joseph Stalin 's death but continued to live in Tashkent until the devastating earthquake of 1966 destroyed their house . They immediately returned to Baku where Jahan Talyshinskaya died a year later of heart failure , while playing the piano
the devastating earthquake of 1966
1966 Tashkent earthquake
Jahan Talyshinskaya