His place of birth is sometimes identified as the Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, where Korvin-Piotrovskii spent much of his childhood.
In addition to Ofrosimov, Korvin-Piotrovskii and Sirin, members included Raisa Blokh, Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia (née Kaplun), Véra Nabokov, and Sofiya Pregel.
His fellow prisoners included the French writer André Frossard, whose memoir La maison des otages documents this time period.
Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii were close friends with Italo and Leila Griselli and visited them many times in Italy.
In 1961, the family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii died on 2 April 1966.