 Feodor was murdered in 1917 by Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, but before his murder he had the foresight to send Louise (who was now using her married name 'Paquita Louise de Shishmareff') with their two sons (Kyril and Misha), and the family fortune, out of the country to safety.During the Bolshevik Revolution, Paquita and her sons moved to Tiflis, Russia, where they lived under the protection of the American Consulate in Tiflis.In the mid-summer of 1917 Paquita and her sons left Tiflis and traveled to the eastern Russian port city of Vladivostok, where they boarded the steamship S. S. Goentoer and left Russia, their destination being San Francisco, California.