He unsuccessfully tried to escape three times, and after seven months of imprisonment returned to St. Petersburg in a prisoner exchange agreement (thanks partly to the lobbying of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna).
In the wake of the October Revolution Skorodumov joined an underground anti-Bolshevik officer's organization.
He served in the army as an invalid wearing a prosthesis, and was additionally wounded in the leg during the siege of Kiev in 1919.
[1] Many Russian emigres hoped for the opportunity to fight on the Eastern front, and liberate Russia from communism.
After leaving jail, Skorodumov demonstratively refused to join the Corps and worked for three years as a cobbler.