Poruchik since 12 August 1900, in 1902 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff for the first class; The camp gathering was serving in the Warsaw Military District.

Since 21 December 1904 he served as a staff officer for assignments with the chief of military communications under the Commander-in-Chief in the Far East.

On 17 August 1905 he was promoted to the head of the movement of troops of the main section of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

After dismissal due to illness, the chairman of the council, Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich, temporarily served as the chief of staff.

He participated in planning of the operations of the Eastern, Southern, Western and South-Eastern fronts of the Civil War.

He participated in the expansion of the network of Soviet military schools as well as the creation of uniforms for the Red Army.

He was the manager of a number of economic associations (Glavzoloto, Glavtsvetmetzoloto and others), the head of the technical library "Giprotsvetmetobrabotki."

At the interrogations, he categorically denied any hostile activity against the Soviet authorities, and on 25 May the case against him was terminated.

On 2 March 1939 the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death on the charges of participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization.