Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I uru a Ivan Gurieli ki te ope a Ruhia i te tau 1780 ka riro i a ia te taumata o te praporshchik i te tau 1786. I uru ia ki te Pakanga o Ruhia-Turiki (1787-92) me te pakanga Polani
(1794) He aha te take? I whakatairangahia ia ki te koronel i te Pipiri 25, 1799, me te rangatira nui i te Mei 16, 1803. I mahi ia hei rangatira mo te reimana Volinsky musketeer (1803-05) me te rangatira o Vilno (naianei ko Vilnius, Lithuania) (1808-12). I te whakaekenga a Napoleon o Ruhia (1812), i arahina e ia te Yekaterinburgsky Infantry Regiment ka muri ko te 1st Brigade i roto i te 23rd Infantry Division ka riro i a ia te whakahau o te wehenga ano i muri i te Pakanga o Borodino. I uru ia ki nga pakanga o Tarutino, Vyazma (1812), Bautzen me Leipzig (1813). I te Pakanga o Paris (1814), ko ia te tuatahi o nga rangatira o nga hoa ki te whakaeke i nga Montmartre Heights. Mai i te tau 1816, i mahi a Gurielov hei rangatira mo te 27th Division.