Facing arrest for her revolutionary activities, she married the Italian anarchist Carlo Cafiero in order to seek political asylum abroad.

Suspected of participating in the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, she was exiled to Siberia, but managed to escape to Italy in order to aid her husband who had been interned in a lunatic asylum.

In March 1874, she went back to Russia in order to see her dying mother, but when she attempted to return to Switzerland, the Tsarist authorities denied her a passport due to her revolutionary activities.

[7] The couple moved to Cafiero's family home in Barletta, where his health briefly appeared to improve, but he never fully recovered his sanity.

[8] Kutuzova's own mental health had also deteriorated during this time and she was forced to return to Russia, where she disappeared from the historical record by the outbreak of World War I.