In the 1790s with the rank of captain he served as supervisor of public navigation schools in St. Petersburg. He printed his translations from French at his own expense: "The Children's Counselor" (“Detskii sovetnik”) (anonymous essay) and "Children's Games, or Amusements of Innocence" (“Detskie igry, ili Zabavy nevinnosti”) by Aimé Ambroise Joseph Feutry. He is the author of a number of odes and epistles addressed to his patrons.
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