After the Bolsheviks came to power, Lvov secretly left Petrograd and went to Buguruslansky district of the Samara province, did not live long in Samara. The offensive of the Red Army forced the Lvovs family to go to Siberia, where Vladimir Nikolaevich lived in Tomsk and Omsk, moved away from political activity. At the end of 1919, the Lvovs had to be evacuated further east, and Lvov as a former member of the government, unlike other members of his family, refused to take the American Red Cross wagon. He managed to leave by mail train to Vladivostok, where he emigrated to Tokyo in 1920, and soon moved to France. His family settled in China, and he never saw her again.