From 1891 until 1894 she studied at the Schneider School in Kharkov; from 1894 to 1899 she was a student at the Academy in Saint Petersburg.

She went to Munich to study at Anton Ažbe's school, staying there from 1899 to 1900.

In April 1899, she married fellow painter Dmitry Kardovsky.

[3] Her mother, Mariya Della-Vos was a Bulgarian from Odessa and member of the Toshkovic family and daughter of Stefan Toshkovich and sister from Nikola Toshkovich.

She was included in a large 1927 exhibit in Moscow commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.