After the Russian Revolution of 1917, she moved to the Caucasian city of Kislovodsk, where she worked for the Cheka and the People's Commissariat of Health.

She was educated in Vilnius, after which she went into exile and frequented Russian revolutionary circles, meeting her husband Aleksandr Ge and joining the Bolshevik Party.

[1] After the October Revolution, Ge moved to Kislovodsk, where she worked as a senior investigator for the Cheka,[1][2][3][4] and as head of the People's Commissariat of Health.

She managed to escape that same night, disguised in a burka and a papakha, and fled to Yessentuki on foot, leaving behind her sleeping daughter and a letter addressed to her mother and late husband.

[4] On 19 August 2018, the monument was vandalised with graffiti, which spelled the name of Andrei Shkuro, a member of the White movement and later the SS Cossacks of Nazi Germany, who became a popular figure in extremist Russian nationalist circles.