 After the Kaluga Bolshevik committee was infiltrated by the police, he was arrested and sentenced to a year and eight months imprisonment in a fortress.Released in 1910, he moved to Moscow, and then enrolled as a student at the party school in Bologna., which was run by the "Vpered" group, Bolsheviks who followed the lead of Alexander Bogdanov, rather than Vladimir Lenin.Returning to Russia in 1912, Glebov-Avilov was arrested and deported to Tobolsk, but he escaped, moved to Ukraine, and joined the underground party organisation in Kherson.