Emil Gilels and Elizaveta Gilels were brother and sister. Elizaveta was his younger sister, born three years after him, and she was a violinist and music teacher.
At the beginning of her career, they performed together in a duo, and Emil Gilels often appeared in concert with his younger sister. During the Second World War, Emil Gilels and Elizaveta Gilels were evacuated together with their mother to Sverdlovsk.
