Graduate of the Imperial School of Law; entered the Ministry of Justice, 1881.

Elected Marshal of Nobility of Staraia Russa Uezd, 1884, of Novgorod Guberniya (1890).

Governor of Pskov (1900–1903); Head of the Red Cross for the Northeastern District during the Russo-Japanese War. Chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society.

Member of the State Council (1906). Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Pyotr Stolypin cabinet (July 1906 – May 1908).

Emigrated to France in 1920 from the USSR after the 1917 revolution.

• V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.