After moving to Saint Petersburg, in 1902, she graduated externally from the Gymnasium Alexandria for girls and joined a school for physical education teachers, Lieshafta AF (1902–04).

In 1904, she gave up teaching and returned to Vilnius with an awakened class, national and women's consciousness and from that moment on, "the woman question" was an important part of her ideas on social justice.

[3] She organized workers' groups, wrote and promoted anti-government proclamations, and took part in debates and political meetings.

[2] Pashkievich began teaching as a free student at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv.

During World War I, Alaiza Pashkievich worked as a Sister of Charity in a military hospital in Vilnius.