 She first appeared on stage in 1905 as an Azeri drama trouper in Tiflis (the troupe was reorganized into the Azerbaijani Theatre of Tbilisi in 1922), where she acted in plays by Hajibeyov, Jabbarli, Shakespeare, etc.in both Azeri and Greek languages.At that time, Tanailidi was often credited as Surayya Zangasurskaya (Azeri