[2][3]: 602 In the 1890s, Chambers studied under Ilya Repin at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts at Princess Maria Tenisheva's School.

[2][4] On 28 April 1902, Chambers married her former teacher and fellow pupil at the Tenisheva studio, artist Ivan Bilibin.

She made the first attempts to combine the techniques of book graphics developed by the Mir iskusstva students with Lermontov’s poetry.

[4][2] In his memoirs, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky recalls being introduced to Chambers-Bilibin by Alexandre Benois, who called her “a very nice artist”.

[11] In May 1914, Chambers-Bilibin travelled to Switzerland for medical treatment of her eldest son, who suffered from complete hearing loss as a result of scarlet fever.