Historian Michael Pearson wrote about her: "She was to help him (Lenin) recover his position and hone his Bolsheviks into a force that would acquire more power than the tsar, and would herself by 1919 become the most powerful woman in Moscow."
历史学家迈克尔·皮尔逊曾如是说：“她帮助他（列宁）恢复了地位，并将布尔什维克打造为比沙皇更为集权的政治力量；与此同时，到1919年她成为了莫斯科最具权势的女人。