Skryplev was fully pardoned, became a "sotnik" (Cossack lieutenant) in the Caucasian Host and settled in the Lana line. There, he eventually rose to the rank of "yesaul" (Cossack captain), as a result of his bravery in operations against the Caucasian mountaineers, and became ataman of the Chamlyksk Cossack settlement. Thus, the other former Russian deserters from Iran in the Caucasian "Voiska" continued regarding him as their leader, his word being "absolute law for us Iranian Cossacks". By the end of his life, his eyesight had begun to fail, supposedly because of his "constant use of henna to colour, Iranian-style, his eyebrows and eyelids". According to Kibovskii, he died in the early 1860s.