In 1897, she exhibited with the Peredvizhniki at their twenty-fifth exposition and her painting, "A Merry Moment", was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov. At this time, she was concerned about gender bias and signed her paintings as "A.L. Rzhevsky". In 1899, she officially became a member of the Peredvizhniki; only the second (and last) woman to be so accepted.