He graduated from the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow and then passed an officer’s examination at the 2nd Constantin Military School in Saint-Petersburg.

[5][6] Together with Lieutenant-Colonel Podpolkovnik Ivan D. Datsenko he commanded the 71st Infantry Belevsky Regiment during the victorious attack on the Austrians by the Opatovka River in October 1914, which resulted in the capture of over 900 prisoners[7] In November 1914 he was appointed commander of the brigade of the 83rd Infantry Division, which fought in eastern Poland.

[9][4] As of July 10, 1916, he served in the same rank and position,[4][10] when the 83rd Infantry Division participated in the bloody offensive operation in the region of Baranovichi.

[11] He kept records in the field book until July 22, 1917, while the troops were in the village of Kvasovitsa, Volynsk Oblast (now north-western Ukraine).

His brother Belyaev Nikolai Vasilievich (1859-1920) was an entrepreneur and one of the founders of the Upper Volga Railroad Society.

was married to Alexey Belyaev (1859-1906) the Consul general of the Russian Empire in Damascus and Secretary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.