Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Dan wani jami'in injiniya, Mikhail Ashenbrenner ya yi karatu tare da Sojojin 'Yan Makaranta na Moscow na Farko, kuma an sallame shi a 1860, tare da mukamin Laftanar. A matsayinsa na jami'in, shi da wasu 'yan uwansa sun yi nazarin kimiyyar halitta, kuma sun yi nazarin Feuerbach, Darwin, da Spencer. A shekara ta 1864, an tura shi zuwa Turkestan saboda ya ƙi shiga cikin murkushe Yakin Poland
a kan mulkin Rasha. Ya zauna a wani yanki mai nisa na Bessarabia har zuwa barkewar Yakin Rasha da Turkiyya a 1877, sannan a lardin Kherson.