Albert died on 22 May 1902. Helene remained in Russia until the Bolsheviks' success in the Russian Civil War forced her and her family to flee abroad in 1919. She lived in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1919 to 1923 and in Hellerup, Denmark from 1923 to at least November 1925.http://ao.sa.dk/ao/data.ashx?bid=16130002 She eventually took up residence at Schloss Remplin in Mecklenburg with her nephew George, Duke of Mecklenburg and his family. They were joined in 1930 by her brother Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, who owned the property. It was at Remplin that Helene died on 28 August 1936.
