He graduated from Nicholas Cadet Corps, Konstantinovskoe Artillery School and joined the Volinsky Life-Guards Regiment.

In November 1900, he held the post of senior adjutant of the 17th Infantry Division, and in May 1901, he served as a superior officer for special assignments at the 6th Army Corps Headquarters; from September 1904 to March 1909, as a senior adjutant of the Warsaw Military District headquarters.

From 1 February 1919 he was an assistant manager in the 1st Moscow Branch of the 3rd (military) section of the Central Archive.

Cooperated with the Anti-Bolshevik underground Organization National Centre, participated in the clandestine headquarters of the anti-government Volunteer Army of the Moscow district; since April 1919, Commander-in-Chief of the Volunteer Army of the Moscow District.

In the White Movement, he served as the Chief of Staff of the Kuban Army of VSUR to General Andrei Shkuro from January to February 1920.

After the evacuation, he lived in Zemun (Yugoslavia) for several years, from 1924 moved to Paris, where he worked at the factory.