 According to materials related to the case, V. M. Ermolaeva was found guilty of “anti-Soviet activity, expressed in propaganda promoting anti-Soviet ideas and for associating herself with anti-Soviet intelligentsia.” She was sentenced to three years of incarceration.On September 20, 1937, she was found guilty a second time by a NKVD troika according to articles 58-10 and 58-11 and sentenced to death.On September 26, 1937, she was shot in a labor camp near Karaganda, Kazakhstan.