Their daughter, Zinaida, was forced by her father to marry Nikolai Nikolaevich Alafuzov, who was fifty-four years old, while she was eighteen.
Together with her second husband Maksimov, who was a son of a wealthy bourgeoise from Rostov-on-Don, Zinaida went travelling abroad, particularly to Paris, France.
[5] In 1919, when HQ of Armed Forces of South Russia led by Anton Denikin was situated in Taganrog (that was from 8 August to 27 December), in Rafailovich mansion lived general Charles Mangin, the head of French mission.
From 1920 to 1924 the house was occupied by political command of 1st Cavalry Army, served as editorial office of the journal «Listok krasnoarmeytsa» and an HQ of OSNAZ units that were involved in fighting crime, persecution of opposition and collecting food tax from local villages.
[5][6] At the same year in Taganrog authorities carried out global «municipalization» of private accommodations which had total area above 100 square metres.