In 1917, Nadya was present with her parents when Nikolai exhumed the body of Grigori Rasputin, in order to obtain his shard of the Russian Imperial Sceptre, one of the Staves of Eden. They then proceeded to escape Russia, and migrate to the United States to begin new lives. During the Palmer Raids of 1919, Nadya and her mother were separated from her father and younger brother, and were deported back to Russia. The American Assassins later claimed that they had overseen Nadya and Anna's safe return to Russia, saying that "the Brotherhood takes care of its own."