When the urgent need for food was felt on the occasion of the War in Finland and the expected break with the West, he bought bread (about 58 thousand sacks) for the treasury on favorable terms, which he delivered by water to Rybinsk and Petersburg (1808 and 1809). Assisting in the establishment of cloth factories in the Simbirsk Governorate (Ignatovka), he, with the same benefit for the treasury, supplied a considerable amount of soldier's cloth to the department of the commissariat.