He was brought up in the Noble Boarding School at Moscow University. He published: “O khristianskoi liubvi i terpenii” ("On Christian Love and Patience") (in the collection “Raspuskaiushchiisia tsvetnik” - "Blossoming Flowers" 1787); “Norston i Susanna, ili kolovratnost roka” ("Norston and Susanna, or the Craftiness of Fate") (in the collection “Poleznoe uprazhnenie iunoshestva” - "Useful Exercise of Youth," 1789); translated from French "A Geographical Description of Asia" (“Geograficheskoe opisanie Azii”) by Abbé de la Croix (1789), etc.
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