Anastasia is the signer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Martini Russa. She was born in Moscow but moved to Phoenix, Arizona with her mother at age 15, where, upon graduating from high school, she studied jazz history, piano performance and psychology at the University of Arizona.

Anastasia has been in bands since she was 16 years old, and has released albums of original songs with her bands Ghetto Princess (Tuscon, AZ, 2003), the Theory (Tucson, AZ, 2009), and One Wing Left (Oxford, UK, 2015).

Anastasia has a PhD in Psychology and an MBA from Oxford University. But in the end she mustered all of her courage to follow the path of music instead.