Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1796 ya yi yaƙi a yaƙin Farisa a ƙarƙashin umurnin Valerian Zubov a matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar Cossack. Bayan ya dawo daga Farisa sai ya koma Strarodubov Cuirassier Regiment. Ya tashi zuwa colonel a 1798 amma ya bar sojojin saboda rashin lafiya a wannan shekarar. A shekara mai zuwa ya koma Strarodubov Regiment a karkashin Alexander Rimski-Korsakov a kan tafiyarsa zuwa Switzerland da War of the Second Coalition. Ya ji rauni a yakin na biyu na Zurich.
kuma ya tashi zuwa janar kuma kwamandan Riazan Cuirassier Regiment. A cikin 1800 an rushe rundunar amma an ba shi damar ci gaba da sanya rigar ta.