Descended from White Russian nobility and the granddaughter of a general in the Imperial Guards, Milla grew up a country girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She studied at The Peabody Conservatory of Music, The Juilliard School (in its Professional Studies Program), as well as at the prestigious Académiè Ravel in France under the watchful eyes of Alice Tully and Phillippe Entremont. Milla has performed in opera and in concerts throughout the U.S., France and Japan, and has devoted herself professionally to cabaret since 1992 when she debuted at Danny's Skylight Room in "An Earful of Music."

In 1999 she began performing her critically acclaimed show "Hidden Voices" (with musical director Jeffrey Chappell) at Don't Tell Mama where it was extended several times. The show, featuring an intriguing collection of songs sung anonymously on screen and lip-synced by the stars, reprised at Danny's in February 2000. Her next show, "Do Re Milla," premiered at Dillon's Supper Club and Cabaret in 2003 and was reprised twice in 2004, first at the Iridium Jazz Club and then, in an unplugged version, as part of the first Midtown Cabaret Festival of Stars. In September 2004 Milla appeared in the first "Broadway Unplugged" concert at Town Hall, which exists in recording. "Taking a Chance on Love" is Milla's third enterprise with musical director Paul Trueblood and director Margery Beddow.The show premiered at the much-missed The Encore in October 2005 and was reprised and recorded in front of a live audience at Danny's Skylight Room Cabaret on Valentine's Day 2006.

Milla is proud to have performed in New York at Alice Tully Hall, The Players Club, The Lamb's Theatre, the Cabaret Convention at Town Hall, and at Tatou. She is also very proud to have worked with such talents as Eric Comstock, Steve Ross and James Hammerstein.