Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ivan Gurieli ya shiga cikin sojojin Rasha a 1780 kuma ya sami matsayin praporshchik a 1786. Ya shiga cikin Russo-Turkish War (1787-92) da kuma
Yakin Poland (1794). An ci gaba da shi a matsayin colonel a ranar 25 ga Yuni, 1799, da kuma babban janar a ranar 16 ga Mayu, 1803. Ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan kungiyar Volinsky musketeer (1803-05) kuma kwamandan Vilno (yanzu Vilnius, Lithuania) (1808-12). A lokacin mamayewar Napoleon na Rasha (1812), ya jagoranci Yekaterinburgsky Infantry Regiment sannan kuma Brigade na 1 a cikin Rukunin Sojoji na 23 kuma ya ɗauki umarnin wannan rukunin bayan Yaƙin Borodino. Ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Tarutino, Vyazma (1812), Bautzen da Leipzig (1813). A lokacin yakin Paris (1814), shi ne na farko daga cikin kwamandojin haɗin gwiwa don kai hari ga Montmartre Heights. Tun daga 1816, Gurielov ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan na 27th Division.