At the same time he took the posts of the head of the Division's school of artillery and the special class of Don's uryadniks' tutor.

[1] In 1854 for financial reasons Shchebalsky retired from the military service and was appointed the chief of Moscow police.

As the Ministry's special envoy, in the course of 4 years he was compiling the comprehensive Russian press reviews for the Tsar.

In those four years time Shchebalsky also wrote the series of essays that were published under the title Readings from the Russian History from the XVII Century Onwards.

After retirement he became the editor of Varshavsky Dnevnik (The Warsaw Diary), the only Russian newspaper in Poland which during years of his leadership became a prominent publication, both allies and opponents praising Shchebalsky's objectivity and literary talent.