Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mai i te Hōngongoi 1775 ko ia te kawana-poruchik o Tver a mai i te 1776 kawana o Kaluga me Tula. I te tau 1790 i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te taitara o te rangatira-nui. I whawhai ia i te
Polish-Russian War of 1792, i whakahau i nga hoia a Ruhia i Lithuania, a ka tohua hei Kawana-Tianara o taua rohe (i taua wa tae atu ki Belarus, Lithuania, te hauauru o Ukraine me tetahi waahanga o Poland) i muri i te Wehewehenga Tuatahi o Poland, i mua i te reti ki Russia i te wehenga tuarua o Poland.