 Orphaned, she and her brothers lived together in one room, foraging for food and witnessing horrors they would never forget.Uvarov's uncle, the entomologist Boris Uvarov (later Sir Boris Uvarov, ), who lived in London, heard that his niece and nephews were still alive.The American Red Cross located the children for him, but he could afford only to pay the costs for one child to be transported out of Russia.