In 1933, when the Nazis took over, she left, after publishing a letter condemning the new regime, and eventually made her way to England, where in 1951 she died in poverty and obscurity in Radlett, Hertfordshire, her works entirely forgotten. Viktor, meanwhile, organized an anti-Bolshevik militia after the 1917 revolution, joined the Nazi stormtroopers in the 1930s, and died in 1950, shortly before his ex-wife.
