 He also was the author of a project for centralizing the city's electricity production using underground cables, he proposed new constructions of blast furnaces and bakery ovens.In 1888 he retired with the rank of colonel, lived on his military pension in the town of Aleshki (now Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) and died in 1898.Since no money was found on him when he died, the burial was paid for by a credit secured by the colonel's furniture.