Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman was born on 19 September 1892 in Rostov-on-Don to a Jewish family of the doctor Ilya Gilelevich Ryndzyun.

There she met Alexander Archipenko, Oscar Meshchaninov, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Chaïm Soutine, Ossip Zadkine, Joseph Chaikov and others.

On the recommendation of Vladimir Favorsky in 1926, she left for a two-year scholarship trip to Italy, where she attended courses at the Roman Academy of Fine Arts.

Critics greatly appreciate her still lives in oil on canvas, many of which can still be found in private collections in Russia, Italy and Germany.

About a dozen sculptures and commemorative plaques have been installed in Moscow: to Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergey Botkin, Alexander Ostuzhev, Nikolai Teleshov.

Alexandra Shatskikh: ...sculptor Nina Niss-Goldman, who lived in Paris in 1910–1915 and frequented Elie Nadelman and Chana Orloff, was close to Alexander Archipenko and Jacques Lipchitz in her plastic experiments.

Khvostenko: ... Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman, who died in 1990 at the age of 98, captured the imagination of the young people around her constantly with stories about the extraordinary details of her sculptural career.

[10]Valentina Morderer: ...A completely different kind of Bohemian intelligence was demonstrated by the sculptress Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman, who often came to this house in the evenings.

It was difficult for her to walk due to age and illness, but she lived very close to Myasnitskaya and was all too eager for new books and impressions.

First, Dina Rubina made her the heroine of her story 'On Verkhnyaya Maslovka', and then she became a celebrity after the release of the film of the same name in 2005, starring Alisa Freindlich and Evgeny Mironov.

[11]The total number of exhibitions in which Niss-Goldman took part include: Father – Ilya Gilelevich Ryndzyun, a graduate of the Imperial Military Medical Academy[1][3] in Sankt-Peterburg and a well known doctor in Russia at the end of the 19th century that specialised in water therapy.

Brother – Voldemar Ryndzune Vetluguin (1897–1953) – writer, publicist, journalist; author of the works "Adventurers of the Civil War", "The Third Russia", secretary and translator of Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin.

Daughter – Niss Aleksandrovna Pekareva (née Goldman) (1913–1984), architect, author of numerous articles and monographs on the history and theory of architecture, including "I.

A. Fomin" (1953), "New Kakhovka" (1958), "Moscow Metro" (1958), "Elektrostal" (1962), "State Kremlin Palace" (photo album, 1965–1978, numerous reprints), "M. V. Posokhin: Popular Architect of the USSR" (1985),[13] etc.

Grandson – Denis Pekarev (1938), graduate of Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU).

He participated in film production, working with Warren Beatty, Pasquale Squitieri, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini.

[14] Niece – Galina Davydovna Tyagai (1922–2006) – orientalist, specialist in the history of Korea and the problems of the national liberation movement in Asian countries.