Nina Evgenievna Vedeneyeva was born on 1 December 1882 in Tbilisi, capital of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire to Pelageya Ivanovna (née Avdeyeva) (Russian : Пелагея Ивановна Авдеева) and Evgeny Lvovich Vedeneyev (Russian : Евгений Львович Веденеев). Vedeneyeva had three siblings: Olga (born 1880), who became a musician and lived in Japan ; Boris (ru) (1885-1946) who was a hydraulic engineer and academician; and Maria (1887-1958) Russian : Мария Евгеньевна Успенская-Веденеева, who became an architect in Leningrad. After completion of her studies at gymnasium, Vedeneyeva with the encouragement of her father went abroad to study architecture in Belgium. Headed for Ghent, she stopped in Liège and met her future husband, Leonid Ivanovich Sirotinsky [ ru ] almost immediately. He was a student at the Liege Electro-Technical Institute and Vedeneyeva then changed her plans and entered the same school. In January 1902, her father was murdered and she returned home until spring. After a year of studies, Vedeneyeva left school and on 28 July 1903 at the Russian Orthodox Church in Brussels, she and Sirotinsky married. He finished his studies and the couple returned to his parental home in Nikolaev, where their son, Yevgeny was born at the end of the year.