In 1811 he was sent in a military mission to the Dresden. In 1812, during the expedition of Napoleon to Russia, he commanded the 1st Brigade of Kniaziewicz's 18th Division in the V Corps. 4 July 1812, in Hrodna, signed the accession to the general confederacy of the Congress Kingdom of Poland established in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna. He was appointed the governor of Mogilev. On 17 August 1812, he was killed during the Battle of Smolensk.