Vera Lebedev was born in Saint Petersburg and educated in Novgorod.
[1] She then traveled to the University of Göttingen, where she completed a doctorate in 1906 under the supervision of David Hilbert.
Her dissertation was Die Theorie der Integralgleichungen in Anwendungen auf einige Reihenentwickelungen, and concerned integral equations.
[2] In Göttingen, she met Romanian mathematician Alexandru Myller [ro].
[1] She married him in 1907,[3] returned with him to the University of Iași, and in 1910 joined the mathematics faculty there.