[1][2] Maria Pevchikh was born on August 15, 1987, in the city of Zelenograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

She studied at the Faculty of Sociology [Wikidata] of Moscow State University,[4][5] where Alexander Dugin was the supervisor of her thesis "Ethno-sociological portrait of modern Great Britain".

[8][3][9] In 2010 she moved to the United Kingdom, where she graduated from the faculty of political science of the London School of Economics.

[11] Maria Pevchikh gained media attention in 2020 after the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

[4][5] After Leonid Volkov resigned as the chairman of the board of directors of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Pevchikh was appointed to the position on March 22, 2023.