Serafima Mogilevskaya was the mother of pianist Yevgeny Mogilevsky. He was born in 1945 in the family of Serafima Mogilevskaya and Gedeon Leyzerovich.
Serafima Mogilevskaya was also Yevgeny Mogilevsky's teacher. He studied at the P. S. Stolyarsky music school in his mother's class, and from an early age she taught him according to her own method of piano instruction. He is described as the first student of her method. After he finished the Stolyarsky school, she entrusted his further education to her teacher Heinrich Neuhaus, who continued and completed his training.