[1] In 1903, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1912 was appointed secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission to the Vatican.
[1] In 1924, Bock moved to Paris, engaging in small business there, and in 1925 adopted Catholicism, converting from Russian Orthodoxy.
[4] Soon, he moved to the United States, living in California, where there were many Russian Catholics who had fled Harbin after Communists had come to power in China.
[2] In 1950, he took part in the Congress of the Russian Catholic clergy in Rome, where he was deputy chairman of the Archbishop Alexander Evreinov.
[5] Their grandson Nikolai Vladimirovich Sluchevsky (born 1948, San Francisco), who is the son of their daughter Ekaterina and Vladimir who is the grandson of the poet Konstantin Sluchevsky, is a fluent Russian speaker and active in business in Russia with his first job at the French commercial company Rémy Cointreau Group in Almaty in 1994 and later working with Boris Fyodorov at the investment fund UFG Assets Management which was obtained by Deutsche Bank in 2005.