After the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas disbanded in 1962, she continued to work freelance. In 1965, a role was created especially for her in the Hamburg Ballet's "Abraxis". After her retirement, she taught in Paris and later in Troyes (1983-1988). She died in Paris at the age of 86. Nina Vyroubova was married three times (one of the husbands was Boris Kniaseff) and had a son, dancer Yura Kniazeff (born 1951, a soloist with the National Ballet of Canada). Vyroubova appeared in a number of documentaries, including the 1996 "Les cahiers retrouvés de Nina Vyroubova" ("The Rediscovered Notebooks of Nina Vyroubova").