Later, he received a post under the Procurator of a provincial court in the Caucasus.

Finally, tiring of the law, he went to the Government of Orel, where he was a landowner and a noble.

His spiritual life had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow.

'In answer to his appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern and angry, appeared to him twice in a vision.

He left the Monastery a converted man.' "From 1905 until the present, little is known of his activities.
Articles are said to have appeared from time to time in the Russian press from his pen.