In the winter of the year 1819, he died peacefully in Moscow, where he had moved with Glafira and his grandson, and left instructions that he should be buried beside Anna Pavlovna and "Malasha." Ivan Petrovitch was then in Paris amusing himself; he had retired from service soon after 1815.

When he heard of his father's death he decided to return to Russia.

It was necessary to make arrangements for the management of the property.
Fedya, according to Glafira's letter, had reached his twelfth year, and the time had come to set about his education in earnest..