Participated in the February Revolution of 1917; during the "dual power" worked in the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP as a party organizer among the female population and secretary of the Vasileostrovsky District Party Committee. At the semi-legal VI Congress of the RSDLP, she supported the policy of an armed uprising. Then participated in the October armed uprising in Petrograd, after the establishment of Soviet power was sent to suppress the "Kerensky-Krasnov revolt" that broke out on October 26 (November 8). During the suppression of the insurgency of her Red Guards detachment, she was killed when delivering medicines near Tsarskoe Selo, now the city of Pushkin [within St. Petersburg].