By his autobiography, his father Platon Andreyevich Andreyev was a hairdresser and his mother Elizaveta Mihailovna was a laundress.

In fact, Platon Andreyevich was a rather successful merchant and had barbershop, laundry and tea room.

At 1902 Platon Andreyevich was documented as a merchant of the second guild and had a two-store brick house at 1-Moskovskaya street in Serpukhov.

Nikolay Andreyev was educated at Serpukhov modern school (Russian: Се́рпуховское реа́льное учи́лище) and his sisters at a gymnasium.

At 1911 on a ballroom dances contest organized by Firefighters Society of Serpukhov (Russian: Пожарное общество Серпухова) he took the first place and valuable desk set.