Natalia Konstantinovna Zhukova

Natalia's childhood home in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), was Moskovskaya St. (now Lenina), house No. 46. From Natalia's school records, we learned that there was a house fire, after which her father became ill and suffered an early death. The school records show that the family applied for many scholarships for their children, as they were unable to pay as a result of losing the income from their sole earner.

The Konstantinov Sinitsin siblings consisted of four sisters (Maria, Tatyana, Ekaterina and Natalia), son Boris, and two boys who died in infancy. At the time of her father's death, the eldest, Maria, was only 13 or 14 years old.

On yandex maps, it is possible to see No 46. The school records show that the widow Anna continued to live at this residence, so the fire may not have burned the building to the ground. The building then likely turned into a Soviet College. Natalia's granddaughter remembers that Lenin also lived on this street and was a friend of the family.

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Улица_Ленина_(Ульяновск)

We are still trying to learn exactly what happened to the family after the death of father Konstantin. The eldest child, Maria Konstantinovna, graduated from the Mariinsky Institute in January 1904. Judging from school documents, her parents and her aunts did not seem as successful in obtaining scholarships for the younger siblings.

Between August 21, 1902 and May 28, 1909, Natalia studied here:
St. Petersburg Mariinsky Institute, aka the Institute of Empress Maria
Scholarship holder of Princess Helena Georgievna of Saxe-Altenburg

Natalia continued her studies and entered the University of St. Petersburg in 1919.

In 1919, she likely met and began an affair with Soviet linguist, Nikolai Marr, when she was his student. Their daughter, Nina, was born in November 1920. Natalia registered the name, "Umanetz," as Nina's last name on her birth certificate. This is a made-up last name based on the Russian word, "Um" (intelligence). She expected this child to be extremely intelligent.

After Natalia's studies at the university, she went on to become Marr's assistant while he worked as the director of the Russian National Library.

https://nlr.ru/nlr_history/persons/info.php?id=109

Natalia and her daughter, Zoya, remained in the city for the siege of Leningrad. Zoya had open tuberculosis before the war, and it was cured by hunger.

We know that both Natalia and Zoya worked as language teachers at what is now called Herzen University.

https://en.hspu.org/about/history/

Natalia taught French, and Zoya English. Zoya was the head of her department toward the end of her career.