She escaped enforced exile, going on to work for Narodnaya Volya, but was rearrested and imprisoned in Kara katorga.

Nadia Symonivna Smyrnytska was born in 1852, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire, into the family of a local priest.

[1] In 1855, her father Symon Smyrnytskyi was tortured and killed during the Kiev Cossacks insurrection, which demanded the abolition of serfdom.

She was arrested for her activities in May 1879 and exiled to Solvychegodsk, in the Russian North, where she married Ivan Kalyuzhny [uk].

[3] She was arrested again in March 1882 and tried in the Trial of the 17 [ru],[3] in which she was sentenced to 15 years of penal labour in Kara katorga.