Final Years
The outcome of the Russian Revolution forced Emanuel to flee Russia in the Summer of 1919. After the seizure of the Nobel family's properties by the Bolsheviks, Emanuel gradually retreated from the direction of the family's businesses. He never married and died in 1932 in Sweden.
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