Her grandmother, Maria Vikentievna Jasiewicz, was Polish, but had been exiled to Central Asia in the late 1880s for her political activity, and there married a land surveyor Konstantin Pisarczik, and had four children, including Andreeva's mother, Antonina Konstantinovna.
Her family had to conceal their true thoughts about the Soviet Union due to fear of persecution, imprisonment, and potential execution.
[1] In 1960, Andreeva began her biological studies at a local university, where she spent her time working alone to research spiders that are located in Tajikistan.
The main reason for her moving to Poland was due to failing at becoming employed at the Zoological Institute in Leningrad which is considered the best place in the USSR to study taxonomy.
[1] The participants of the XVIII International Arachnological Congress that took place in 2010 in Siedlce, Poland received a collection of abstracts dedicated to the memory of Andreeva and other outstanding arachnologists who died recently.