In January 1918, a soldier arrived in Don, wishing to fight against the Bolsheviks. The young man with a puffy face did not look like an important person, but insisted that Colonel Kutepov personally accept him into the White Guard. The brazen guest was brought to the headquarters, where a conversation took place: "I am the very Kirpichnikov!" he declared. "Which very one?" Kutepov asked discontentedly. "What, you don’t know?" the guest began pulling postcards with his image out of his overcoat pocket.

Kutepov flinched. Before him stood the soldier from whom the February Revolution had begun.

On the morning of February 27, 1917, the training team of the Volhynian regiment refused to obey the authorities. When the battalion commander Ivan Lashkevich entered the barracks and greeted the soldiers: "Hello, brothers!", the response was "Hooray!". Lashkevich felt something was wrong and asked what that meant. The soldiers began banging their rifles on the floor and shouted: "Get out while you can!" Lashkevich, along with the officers, headed for the exit, but a shot rang out from behind him.

The murder of the officer became the reason for the uprising of the regiment, to which almost the entire Petrograd garrison soon joined. Kirpichnikov became a popular figure: he was invited to clubs to listen to the "fiery revolutionary", and newspapers and magazines wrote about him. He even painted the enamel of the George Cross red. However, the end was predictable.

In 1918, disillusioned with the revolution, Kirpichnikov tried to switch sides to the Whites. But he was not accepted into the guard, and his name did not impress Kutepov. Then Kirpichnikov laid out a collection of newspapers about himself on the table. Kutepov jumped up: "I remember! I saw you in February in Petrograd. You are the very soldier who killed your commander!" After these words, Timofey Kirpichnikov was taken out to the yard and shot.