Her father was Julian Schneider an employee of the district office, while her mother was Julia Łopuszańska.

[3] She made her first poetry attempts in Polish and Ukrainian under the guidance of her tutor Antonina Machczyńska [pl].

[4] After graduating from the seminary, Ulyana Kravchenko began teaching in the town of Bóbrka.

[1][2] In 1885, thanks to the efforts of Ivan Franko, she gets a job in Lviv, but in the same year she is fired for promoting socialist ideas.

[1] On November 22, 1886, she married Jan Ambroży Niementowski, head of the village school in Dolishnia Luzhok.