In 1918, a year after the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia, he fled with his family to Bila Tserkva ("Biała Cerkiew"), in Volhynia and then to Kiev due to the Bolsheviks' great hunt for the rich land owners in their occupied areas. After the battle of Kiev by Polish troops under Edward Smigly-Rydz in 1920, the Ścibor-Rylskis left for Kiev, then the newly independent Polish Republic by train. They settled in the Lublin region, initially in Studzianki, then in Zwierzyniec (near Zamosc), where his father Oscar was offered a post within the county Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski in the Zamość Ordinance.