The following year, He received a large gold medal for his statue of a young man playing svaika.
This was created in conjunction with Nikolai Pimenov, who produced a statue of a young man playing babka.
While there, he created a marble figure of Abaddon and a group depicting young people from Kiev in gypsum, for which he was awarded the title of "Academician".
Upon returning, he created two bas-reliefs for Saint Isaac's Cathedral: an "Annunciation to the Shepherds" and a "Massacre of the Innocents".
Since 1839, together with Peter Clodt, Nikolai Ramazanov, and others, he had been involved in a project to create colossal relief images and figures of saints and angels for the outer walls of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; a project which took almost forty years to complete.