At that establishment she was influenced by teachers and directors, some of whom were collaborators of Count Tolstoi in his school work in paper in America until the Russian "Golos".

In 1871 she met her future husband, the New York Herald war correspondent reporter Januarius MacGahan on a trip to the Crimea.

[3] Two years later, in January 1873, they got married in France and she moved with her husband to Lyons, to Spain (1874–1875) with the Carlist Army during the Spanish War, to England, France, the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and later moving to Romania where she stayed throughout the Russo-Turkish War.

Her journey as a journalist continued to grow as she began to write for "Novosti"[5] of St. Petersburg and "Russkiye Viedomosti" of Moscow, the two leading liberal newspapers in Russia.

In 1890 she became she wrote many regular monthly publications on American life for a St. Petersburg magazine Northern Messenger.