 He did not abandon ideas of an armed struggle against the Russian Empire – a Russian informant reported in 1866 that Akelaitis was writing a Lithuanian-language "revolutionary catechism" that would be published in Switzerland and smuggled to Russia.He died in 1887 and was buried at the Cimetière parisien de Pantin.His short obituaries were published in "Tygodnik Ilustrowany", "Biblioteka Warszawska", "Ateneum".