On the night of June 3 to 4, 1927, a group that included Yu. S. Peters (real surname Voznesensky) and A. O. Opperput attempted to set fire to the Chekist dormitory on Malaya Lubyanka, house 3/6. Their plan failed as the guards discovered the terrorists before they could prepare for the sabotage. As a result, only one melinite charge exploded, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished. After this, the terrorists split up: Zakharchenko-Shultz left with Peters, while Opperput went separately. They tried to cross the western border, but the OGPU had already raised the alarm. Units of the NKVD, Red Army, and local residents were mobilized to search for the terrorists along the border and in the surrounding areas. All roads were blocked, and sweeps were organized. Zakharchenko-Shultz and Peters were caught near the Dretun railway station on the stretch between Nevel and Polotsk, in the Polotsk district of Vitebsk province, 25 kilometers from Polotsk. Near the station, in a coniferous forest, was the village of Sitno with ranges and military camps of the Red Army. Zakharchenko-Shultz died on June 23 (according to other sources, June 18) 1927 in a shootout with OGPU officers at the Dretun station. One eyewitness, a Red Army soldier present at the shooting range, described her last moments: on the opposite edge of the forest, between the targets, stood a man and a woman with revolvers in their hands. The woman shouted, 'For Russia!' and shot herself in the temple, the man in the mouth. Both fell. Two hours later, he saw her again: in a modest gray dress, she lay on the ground near the regiment's headquarters. The woman was of below-average height, middle-aged, a brunette, with a deathly pale face and closed eyes, in an unconscious state.