By request of the new Empress Elizabeth of Russia, Nikitin travelled back from Tobolsk to Saint Petersburg and died somewhere on the road either in late 1741 or in early 1742.
根據伊麗莎白的要求，尼基廷從托博爾斯克旅行回到聖彼得堡，並在1741年底或1742年初在路上的某個地方死亡。