In 1917, after the October revolution, an attempt was made to nationalize the estate in Semenkovo, however, through the intervention of the Minister of Education, Anatoli Lunascharski, she was permitted to keep the estate. Julia Lermontova died in 1919 from a brain hemorrhage. While she never married, Sofia (Fufa) Kovaleyskaya (her step-daughter) inherited the entire estate.