[2][3] Her parents are from Kyiv, Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s.

[1][8] She graduated Livingston High School in 2018, after being a four-year varsity fencer and named First Team All-State in 2017.

[8] Tartakovsky then graduated Harvard University in 2023 with a degree in economics; while at the school she was named the 2019 Ivy League Individual Champion.

[8] In 2017, Tartakovsky was the bronze medalist in the World Cadets Fencing Championship.

[11] She was the Individual Ivy League Champion,[10] and bronze medalist at the NCAA Championships in sabre in 2019.