 In 1908 he married Nina Mikhaylovna Dobrovolskaya, who later became one of pioneers of the Guiding movement in Russia.In 1910 their son Oleg Olegovich Pantyukhov, who served during World War II as General Eisenhower´s official Russian interpreter, was born in Pavlovsk.In 1908–09 Pantyukhov became acquainted with the works of Baden-Powell and decided to try these ideas on Russian soil.