Since July 1917, he commanded the 1st Amur Cossack Regiment of the 3rd Cavalry Corps of General Alexander Krymov.

On November 7, 1917, on the eve of the uprising, he was removed by the Provisional Government from his post for "indecision" in the fight against the advancing revolution and replaced by the chief of staff, General Yakov Bagratuni.

On November 11, 1917, as the commander of the army of the Committee for the Salvation of the Motherland and the Revolution, he led the Cadet Action in Petrograd after he had developed his plan.

In March 1918, he was arrested by the organs of Soviet power in the Zadonskaya Steppe and was shot by the verdict of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

This is the type of officers who made a revolution for the sake of a career, flew like butterflies into a fire, and burned in it without a trace.