[3] She grew up in Ekaterinoslav, modern-day Ukraine, in a somewhat well-off family and an area rife with class tensions.
Schachova's time in Zurich ended abruptly when the Russian government required women to leave the city.
She transferred to the University of Bern and worked with Theodor Langhans on kidney anatomy research using a canine model of induced nephritis.
[2] In Bern whe completed her dissertation in medicine Untersuchungen über die Niere (1876)[4].
Schachova returned to Russia in 1878 and practiced medicine in that country until 1910, when she moved to Kharkhov, Ukraine.