Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska, was born in Pidhaichyky,[2] Austria-Hungary, to Sylvestr and Karolina Voiakivsky.

She met Hrushevsky in Lviv in 1893 and after three years they married in the town of Skala near Borschiv.

On 21 June 1900, while living in Lviv, a daughter was born in the family of Hrushevsky – Kateryna.

In the spring of 1924 they returned to Soviet Ukraine and settled in Kyiv in a house on Pankivska street 9.

Kateryna's daughter was arrested on 10 July 1938, and was later sentenced for "supporting the anti-Soviet activity of the Ukrainian nationalist organization in order to establish a fascist dictatorship."