At the end of his exile in March 1913, he returned to Saint Petersburg in order to raise funds for Pravda. Then he moved to Kutaisi for four months, where he conducted agitation and propaganda work, and in November 1913 he moved to Tiflis. However, in Tiflis he was attacked by gendarmes and a week later he was forced to move to the Kutaisi Governorate. After staying in Kutaisi for several months, he returned to St. Petersburg. At the beginning of 1914, he was sent by the party organization to work in the sickness fund at the Triangle factory, whose secretary he remained until April 1915. In addition, at the same time he was an employee of Pravda. In the fall of 1914, he was arrested and after four months in prison was sentenced to deportation to the Yenisei Governorate. However, due to illness, he was sent to the Astrakhan province, and in December 1915 he moved under police supervision to Vologda, where he worked in the cooperative association Severo-Soyuz, while meeting with local and exiled leftists and with railway workers.
