The hardy, intelligent, zealous, well-conducted young Siberian first distinguished himself especially, in a journey to the Caucasus, through the midst of a difficult country, ravaged by some restless successors of Schamyl; then later, in an important mission to Petropolowski, in Kamtschatka, the extreme limit of Asiatic Russia.
Gazte siberiarra, ausarta, argia, saiatua, jokabide zuzenekoa, laster nabarmendu zen; lehenbizi Kaukasora egin zuen bidaia batean, lurralde nekez hartan Shamil buruzagiaren ondorengo liskarti batzuk altxatu zirenean;