Yelena Andreyevna Kiselyova (Russian: Елена Андреевна Киселёва; 27 October [O.S.
They opened a school for the poorest children on their Otrádnoye estate, which after the revolution was to become an orphanage.
She would later study at the city drawing school under the instruction of Lev Solovyov [ru].
She later studied at the Mariinskaya Women's High School and managed to graduate with a gold medal, to enter the Bestuzhev courses in Saint Petersburg.
Kiselyova was a favorite student,[3][4] so in 1903 she entrusted her work together with Yevgeniya Maleshevskaya [ru] for a series of dioramas for the bicentennial of Saint Petersburg.