Probably the privy councillor, vice-president of the Commercial Collegium, writer, member of the Russian Academy (1794). He translated from German "Three chapters on geography in general, on Europe and the Russian Empire" (“D. Antona Friderika Bishinga iz sokrashchennoi ego geografii tri glavy o geografii voobshche o Evrope i o Rossiiskoi imperii”) (1766) by Anton Friedrich Büsching and Gerhard Friedrich Müller's work "On the peoples who have inhabited Russia from ancient times" (“O narodakh izdrevle v Rossii obitavshikh”) (1773).
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