Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: An haifi Serafima Panteleeva a 1846 a St Petersburg, babban birnin Daular Rasha. Ta auri ɗalibin ɗan gwagwarmayar ɗalibai kuma mai wallafa Longin Pantelev a 1864. Bayan da aka kama mijinta a watan Disamba na 1864 saboda ayyukan juyin juya hali a lokacin da gwamnati ta yi adawa da rashin amincewa bayan da
Tashin hankali na Poland na 1863-64. Ta bi Panteleev zuwa gudun hijira na Siberia bayan da aka yanke masa hukunci a watan Mayu 1866. Ta yi baƙin ciki bayan mutuwar jariri na biyu da mahaifinta a 1867, Panteleeva ya koma gida. Bukatar tallafawa kanta da 'yarta, ta shiga cikin darussan karatun Vladimir na co-ilimi a 1870 sannan ta zama dalibar likitanci a Jami'ar Zurich shekaru biyu bayan haka, ta kware a fannin ilimin lissafi. Daga baya an buga wasu ayyukanta a cikin "Journal of Medical Science" (). Ta haɗu da mijinta bayan dawowarsa daga gudun hijira a shekara ta 1875 kuma ta sami damar kammala bincikenta a dakunan gwaje-gwaje na Kwalejin Likita da Likita sannan kuma Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Rasha a shekara mai zuwa. Ba za ta iya aiki a fagen ta ba, Panteleeva ta fara fassarar takardun kimiyya kuma ta rubuta rubutun kan ilimin kimiyya. Bayan sanya hannu kan takardun biyu da ke nuna rashin amincewa da zalunci na masu zanga-zangar lumana a 1901, an kori mijinta daga St. Petersburg na tsawon shekaru uku. Sun shafe mafi yawan wannan lokacin a Yammacin Turai kafin su dawo a 1904. Panteleeva ya mutu a Petrograd (kamar yadda aka sake sunan St Petersburg na ɗan lokaci) a cikin 1918.