[2] In 1902, she moved to Bulgaria and became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists).

After a short stay in Ruse she moved to Sliven where in 1903 she met and in 1906 married unionist and socialist Georgi Dimitrov who came from a family of working class activists.

[4] They moved to Sofia in 1904, where she began to work in a luxury sewing attire shop, and became a manager there.

[3] She lived permanently in the Moscow hotel "Lux", where she suffered from depression because of the constant travels of her husband and the inability to have children.

The arrest of Dimitrov in 1933 in Germany on a charge of inciting the Reichstag fire exacerbated her condition.