[1] As a high school student, Burbaitė became acquainted with brothers Jan and Józef Piłsudski and established contacts with the Polish Proletariat party.
After obtaining a doctorate of medicine and surgery, she worked in Germany for eight years and started specializing as an ophthalmologist.
As an official editor of the communist newspaper Darbininkų atstovas [lt], she was arrested by the Lithuanian police and exchanged for political prisoners with the Soviet Union.
[1] According to her friend from her student years Josepha Kodis, Burbaitė came from Lithuanian petty nobility, "but she told everyone she was a peasant.
She rented a room in a student dormitory run by Stefania Lipman, a relative of brothers Jan and Józef Piłsudskis.
According to a story later recorded by Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, Tsarist police searched the student dormitory, but found no explosives because Burbaitė managed to smuggle it outside without detection.
In Zurich, she found herself in the circle of students gathered around the Walka Klas [pl] magazine published in Geneva by Stanisław Mendelson.
[6] The circle was called "Olympus" and was formed by young people with socialist views: Zofia Poznańska, Feliks Daszyński [pl], Stanisława Popławska and her husband, Maria Kozłowska, Aleksander Tupalski, Gabriel Narutowicz, Joanna Billewicz, Teodor Kodis, Aleksander Dębski [pl] and Józefa Krzyżanowska.
[1] As women were not allowed to practice medicine in Russia, she worked in Germany and started specializing as an ophthalmologist.
[9] In September 1917, together with other women activists, she signed a letter protesting that not a single woman was invited to Vilnius Conference.
In 1918, he became chairman of the short-lived Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia and Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies.
[1] When Polish forces captured Vilnius in April 1919, Eidukevičius retreated to Soviet Russia while Burbaitė remained in Lithuania.
[11] She was named as the official editor of the communist newspaper Darbininkų atstovas [lt] even though she did not actually participate in its publication.