 She studied at the Women's University, and in 1912 graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory where she studied composition under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.From 1912 to 1914 she continued her studies in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck and Max Reger.She married Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov, musicologist and son of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and from 1915 to 1917 served on the editorial board of the first Russian music magazine, "Muzïkal'nïy sovremennik", which he founded.