[2] She started studying the field of pomology for about three years in 1873 in Södermanland in Sweden under the supervision of the well known pomologist Olof Eneroth.

[3] She did a lot of research based on which she created and published a re edition of the Swedish Handbook of Pomology.

[3] The book is called Suomen pomologiian käsikirja and it was published in 1894 in both Swedish and Finnish.

[4] Smirnoff has 24 works in 37 publications in 4 different languages including Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and Russian.

[6] When she was young she lived comfortably until one day her residential building caught fire in 1852.