Along the way they stayed with family friends in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, before arriving at her maternal grandparents' home in Odessa, where her grandfather worked for the Imperial Ministry of Railways [ru].

Although her father suffered from stage fright, he earned a successful living in Russia as a recitalist, and was referred to in the local press as the "distinguished Spanish tenor."

Lina attempted to dissuade her husband from relocating with his family to his homeland after being urged to do so by Pierre Souvtchinsky, who drew her attention to the persecution of Dmitri Shostakovich in the wake of the official denunciation against his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

[8] What Sergei said to reassure Lina about the matter is unknown, but a note he made to himself in a personal notebook from the time said: "The attacks on formalism neither affected me nor Myaskovsky.

[11] After the end of World War II, Sergei attempted to serve Lina with divorce papers through their son Oleg, who did not carry the task through for the sake of his mother's well-being.

[13] Frederick Reinhardt, an employee of the American Embassy in Moscow who was acquainted with Lina, suggested that her persistent efforts to obtain an exit visa had caused her to be noticed unfavorably by Soviet authorities.

[15] A fellow prisoner recalled that Lina attempted to follow her ex-husband's life and career, but that she only managed to learn of his death months after it had occurred:

Subsequent petitions to Dmitri Shostakovich[18] and Tikhon Khrennikov, the latter a personal friend of Lina,[17] resulted in her successful rehabilitation during the Khrushchev Thaw.

An initial ruling in her favor was reversed by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 12 March 1958, which reaffirmed that their marriage had no legal validity.

Their sons Sviatoslav (1924–2010), an architect, and Oleg (1928–1998), an artist, painter, sculptor and poet, dedicated a large part of their lives to the promotion of their father's life and work.