1848 saw the start of the Hungarian Revolution that was led by Lajos Kossuth and the city of Novi Sad paid a high price. Only 800 of the 2,800 buildings were standing after the bombardment by the Hungarian army. She later recalled that in 1849 she had spent her only day of hunger as she waited outside the closed walls of Varadin. This day was to shape her later plans. She and her husband paid for the rebuilding of Church of St. Nicholas (Nikolajevska Church) in Novi Sad. She and her husband also paid for the city's Armenian Church to be rebuilt.