On October second, his eightieth anniversary was noisily celebrated. Gerdt was already seriously ill, sat all the time, but as if he wanted to arrange in honor of the last meeting with friends and spectators a festive salute. Even a woman came, who during the war carried him, seriously wounded, from the battlefield, she gave him more than fifty years of her life. Gerdt always remembered this. In general, he was a very grateful person, did not get tired of joyfully admiring a variety of people.