From her childhood, Borislebskaya showed interest in the theater. She stepped onto the professional stage in 1888 with invitation of Marko Kropyvnytskyi.[3] Borislebskaya worked with Kropivnitskyi's troupe until 1902,[1] then spent four years with Panas Saksahansky and Ivan Karpenko-Karyi's troupe. In 1906–1907, she toured with the Shchepkin and Kolesnichenko troupes. From 1907 to 1917, she worked at the stationary theater led by Mykola Sadovsky in Kyiv.
She created a gallery of stage characters in the theater: Rindichka, Teklya, Gapka, Varvara ("During the Inspection," "Until the Sun Rises, Dew Eats Eyes," "Zaydigolova," "Chmyr" by Kropyvnytskyi), Sekleta, Vustya ("Chasing Two Hares," "Oh, Grits, Don't Go..." by Starytskyi), Hanna ("Talented" by Karpenko-Karyi), Mother (in the plays "Sueta" by Karpenko-Karyi and "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka), Stekha ("Nazar Stodolya" by Shevchenko), Shkandybiha ("Limerivna" by Panas Myrnyi), Mazaylikha ("Mina Mazaylo" by Mykola Kulish).[4]
In 1919, Borisoglebskaya became one of the founders of the First State Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T. G. Shevchenko (now in the city of Dnipro — Taras Shevchenko Dnipro Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre).[4] From 1920 to 1925, she was in Western Ukraine, where she performed with various theater troupes, especially with Orel-Stepnyak.[5]
From 1925 until the end of her life, she worked at the Ivan Franko Theater in Kyiv.[4][1] Here she created characters in plays such as: Oryna ("97" by Kulish), Klara ("Fear" by Afanasyev), Marfa, Varvara ("Truth," "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" by Korniychuk).[4]
