To this it should be added that he never tried to avoid danger and, although this was not at all required by his position, he always personally went on dives to great depths or on trials from which the boat risked not returning.

[2]On 23 March 1915 he was appointed to be under the Minister of the Navy, Ivan Grigorovich, supervised the construction of new submarines at the Baltic Sea on 18 January 1916[1][3] but after the October Revolution of 1917, he left for Kiev.

Upon the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, he would serve at the Navy of the Ukrainian People's Republic before enlisting for the White Army.

[10] Once the White Army began losing on all fronts however, Levitsky would flee with Pyotr Wrangel to Athens from Constantinople and lived in exile in Greece in November 1920.

On 24 April 1930 he was promoted by Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich to Vice Admiral but Levitsky would die on 31 July 1938 in Tallinn and was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Cemetery.