The untimely death of their son led her husband to an early grave in 1915. That same year her son-in-law (Princess Tatiana's husband) was also killed in action. Later life and exile K.R.'s wife, two youngest children, Prince George and Princess Vera, and two grandchildren (Ioann's children: Vsevolod and Catherine) remained at Pavlovsk throughout the war, the chaotic rule of the Provisional Government, and after the October Revolution. In the fall of 1918, they were permitted by the Bolsheviks to move by boat called Ångermanland to Sweden (via Tallinn to Helsinki and via Mariehamn to Stockholm), at the invitation of the Swedish queen. In Stockholm harbor they met prince Gustaf Adolf who took them to the royal palace. Later, Vsevolod and Catherine were able to reunite with their mother. Three of her sons (Ioann, Konstantin and Igor) were murdered in a mineshaft together by Bolsheviks in Alapaievsk, Siberia, in July 1918 along with several other members of the family. Her brother-in-law, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich was shot in Petrograd the following year. Elizaveta Mavrikievna and Vera and Georgi lived for the next two years in Sweden first in Stockholm then in Saltsjöbaden, but Sweden was too expensive a place to live so they moved to Belgium by invitation of Albert I of Belgium. Later they moved to Germany, settling in Altenburg where they lived for 30 years except for a couple of years in England. Elizaveta died of cancer on 24 March 1927 in Leipzig. Prince Georgi died in New York City in 1938. Princess Vera lived in Germany until Soviet forces occupied the east part of the country, when she fled to Hamburg and in 1951 she moved to the United States and died there in 2001, in New York City. A scarab brooch given to the Princess by her husband in 1891 was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2012. Archives Elizaveta Mavrikievna's personal papers (including correspondence and photographs) are preserved in the "Romanov Family Papers" collection in the Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford, California, USA). Issue Konstantin and Elizaveta had nine children: Prince Ioann (1886–1918); married Princess Helen of Serbia and had issue. Prince Gavriil (1887–1955); married, firstly, in a morganatic union, to Antonina Rafailovna Nesterovskaya. He married, secondly, Princess Irina Ivanovna Kurakina. Princess Tatiana (1890–1979) Prince Konstantin (1891–1918) Prince Oleg (1892–1914) Prince Igor (1894–1918) Prince Georgy (1903–1938) Princess Natalia (died at exactly two months, 1905) Princess Vera (1906–2001) Ancestry