Nizhyn Raion
Maria was born into a family of an impoverished landowner and nobleman Kostyantyn Kostyantynovych Adasovsky and a Chernihiv city resident (burgess) Maria Vasylivna Nefedova in a village of Zanky, Nizhyn County, Chernihiv Governorate (today - in Nizhyn Raion). She had many siblings. Maria was a graduate of the Chernihiv City Female Gymnasium.