Galich was a teacher of Latin and Russian literature at the German Saint Peter's School (Petrischule) in St. Petersburg, a professor at St. Petersburg University, a teacher of Alexander Pushkin, and a writer and philosopher who was one of the first followers of the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling in Russia.
Galich was born as Alexander Ivanovich Govorov in 1783 into the family of a deacon in Trubchevsk in Bryansk Oblast.
In 1819, the Main Teacher's College was reorganized as St. Petersburg University, and Galich was the first member of the Faculty of Philosophy.
From 1818 to 1819, Galich published A History of Philosophical Systems in two volumes, compiled on the basis of German works by Sacher[who?
However, ill fortune did not abandon Galich: as soon as he had completed these works, they were destroyed in an accidental fire.