Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1789, ya zama laftanan-kolonel a cikin Ekaterinoslav Grenadier Regiment kuma ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Rasha da Turkiyya; a cikin 1792-1794, ya yi aiki a cikin Yaƙin Rasha da Poland
kuma ya ji rauni a cikin ciki a Praga, a hayin kogin daga Warsaw. A shekara ta 1797 an daukaka shi zuwa colonel kuma a shekara ta 1798 zuwa babban janar, amma Paul I ya wulakanta shi kuma aka sallame shi daga rundunar a shekara ta 1798.