Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Teryokhin i te 17 o Poutu-te-rangi 1896 i te kainga o Polyany i Ryazan Governorate ki tetahi whanau ahuwhenua. I puta ia i nga karaehe e whitu, i mahi ia hei hepara me te tipu witi i te wa o tona tamarikitanga me te taiohi. I te hotoke i ako ia i tetahi kura tuawhenua, i puta mai ia i te tau 1910. Mai i Akuhata 1915 i mahi ia i roto i te Imperial Russian Army hei Ryadovoy me te Unteroffizier. I tukuna a Teryokhin ki te whawhai i te Poutu-te-rangi 1917 i te Baltic, a ka eke ki te taumata o te Kaihauturu Matua i mua i te wehenga o te Ope Taua o Ruhia i muri i te Huringa o Ruhia. I uru ia ki te ope Whero i te marama o Akuhata 1918 ka whawhai ia i te Pakanga o Ruhia. I uru a Teryokhin ki te Rōpū Communist (Bolshevik) o Ruhia i te 1919. I mahi a ia hei kaiako pluton i roto i te tari volost vsevobuch, te kaikawe patu a te Cheka i Kaluga, me te rangatira pluton, e whawhai ana ki te Mamontov Raid, te Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army o Ukraine me te
Te whakaekenga o Tambov. I te tau 1920, i puta ia i nga Kura o Ryazan Infantry.