bookseller, press worker, public figure.Father, landowner nobleman Juozas Povickas, mother Antanina Ona Liutkevičiūtė, sister Juzefa Povickaitė-Okuličienė. He studied at home until the age of 13, 1885-1889. Kaunas Marinskaja girls' gymnasium. Expelled from the penultimate class for organizing a strike. During the protections, 1890 was also adopted. graduated from Vilnius Girls' Gymnasium. She studied history and French for a year in Warsaw, in a private secret course for Moravian women. After returning, she worked for a while with her father at Ukmergės Bank.
1901 married Jonas Bortkevičius (1871–1909), engineer of the intendant's office, settled in Vilnius and became involved in social activities. Learned to speak and write Lithuanian. Together with her husband, she participated in the activities of the Vilnius Lithuanian intelligentsia circle, took care of the revival and strengthening of Lithuanianness.
He acted in private Lithuanian performances, took part in excursions around Vilnius. He met the bookseller Motiejus Baltūsius, who moved to Vilnius to live. He started receiving banned Lithuanian publications - "Varpa", "Ūkininka", "Naujienas" and Lithuanian books. After the arrest of M. Baltūsis, she herself took care of transporting the press to Vilnius, hiding it and distributing it. In 1902, after St. St. Michael's Church, many prints were kept in the hiding place installed there. Jonas Vileišis helped establish relations with the administrator of "Varpo" and "Ūkininkos" Morta Zauniūts, with whom he began to correspond regularly, forwarded manuscripts prepared for the press to her, and provided funds for the publication of these newspapers.
She was the chairwoman of the "Žiburėlio" society, she helped talented students and writers. Patronized the Martyrs' fund, helped prisoners in 1905-1907. participants of the revolution. Entered in 1902 founded the Lithuanian Democratic Party. Was on the board of the Lithuanian Women's Association, founded in 1905. Since 1906 May 11 signed by the publisher of "Lietuvos žinios" and "Lietuvos žinios" newspapers. 1909 together with K. Grinius and others. formed a trust company to publish those newspapers. As the publisher of those newspapers, even before the First World War, she was imprisoned four times by the Russian authorities. in 1915 joined the Masonic Lodge of Vilnius (Lithuania/Litwa) and became the first female Freemason in Lithuania.
Having withdrawn from the front in 1915-1917. They were looking for exiled Prussian Lithuanians in Siberia. in 1917 one of the organizers of the All-Russian Lithuanian Congress, in the same year, she participated in the World Lithuanian Conference in Stockholm. in 1919 V. Kapsukas, a former protégé, was imprisoned in Smolensk as a hostage, exchanged for communists imprisoned in Kaunas prison.
1918-1939 worked at the Women's Welfare Society. 1920 May 15 - 1922 November 13 Representative of the Constituent Seimas from the Lithuanian Peasants' Union, elected in the I (Marijampole) electoral district. He refused the mandate, but in 1921 month of January. started working in the family again in place of the deceased J. Lukoševičius. 1921-1931 Director of Varpas AB, 1931-1932. editor of "Varpas" magazine. 1922-1936 - Responsible editor of Lietuvos žinios.
