Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau mai ki tetahi whanau rangatira i te rohe o Moscow, i uru a Markov hei tangata takitahi i te Permsk Infantry Regiment i te 16 o Tihema 1770, a i whakawhiwhia ia ki te 29 o Noema 1772. I te 29 o Hune 1788 i whakatairangahia ia ki te tuarua o nga rangatira, a ka uru ki te Pakanga o Ruhia-Turiki, e mahi ana i raro i a Alexander Suvorov e whakahau ana i te raina tuarua i Kinburn 13 Oketopa. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia he ripeka koura me te Order o St. George (4th akomanga) i te wa o te Siege o Ochakov i te 11 Paenga-whawha 1792, i whara ai ia i te mahunga. Whai muri i tana whakaoranga, i whakawhiwhia ia hei rangatira nui i roto i te Apsheron Infantry Regiment i te tau 1792, e mahi ana i te
Polish Campaign o 1792-1794 me te kite i te mahi i Gorodische, Dubenky, me Praga. I te tau 1796 i uru ia ki te Haerenga Pirihi. I whakatairangahia ia ki te koronel i te 15 o Aperira 1798, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te mana o te Tiflis Musketeer Regiment i te 27 o Akuhata 1798. I te 7 o Oketopa 1798 i whakatairangahia ia hei Major General, a ka tohua hei rangatira o te Muromansk Infantry Regiment i te 8 o Tihema.