 There, she worked with Théodore Deck and Evdokim Egrorov (1832-1891) and had her first exposure to Art Nouveau.Upon returning to Saint Petersburg, she taught porcelain painting and created pieces of Victorian majolica.After 1882, family circumstances required her to live in Moscow, where she worked as an art teacher and became a member of the "Abramtsevo Colony", a group of artists, musicians and theatrical people who gathered at an estate in Abramtsevo belonging to the Mamontov family.