The poet, Mirra Lokhvitskaya, was his sister whose brief career ended in 1907.Teffi, another sister was also a writer who despite initially supporting the Bolshevik seizure of power, left for exile in Paris where she became a prominent writer in the white émigré community in France.

[1] Lokhvitsky took command of the First brigade of the REF leaving Moscow on 2 February 1916.

He participated in the Great Siberian Ice March and was sent ahead by Kolchak to Irkutsk to prepare for the transfer of the staff to this city and to negotiate with Ataman Semenov.

In October 1920 he rejected the overall command of Semenov and recognized General Baron Wrangel as the commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces.

From 1927 he was the chairman of the Legitimist Monarchist Society, and worked with Grand Duke Vladimirovich.