 One rumor told that he was arrested by the Cheka, and was murdered after being imprisoned in Mozhaisk (according to the memoirs of Prince Vladimir Drutskoy-Sokolinsky).Another rumor told that he was released after being imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, after that he engaged in beekeeping and died peacefully at the age of 69.A more likely rumor was that he was killed by the guards on his way to Mozhaisk, and he was buried in a local cemetery there.