"[2] The Archival Collections of Columbia University Libraries refers to Kazembek himself as born "into an old noble family of Persian (Azeri) origin".
[3] Brill's Christian-Muslim Relations series refers to his great-grandfather as being born "to a prominent Iranian family from the Caucasus", and having a father who was an "Azerbaijani Muslim cleric".
In 1925, Kazembek graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and started working at a credit union in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
[6] Like many other expatriate Russian political organizations in the decades World War II, the Mladorossi sought the restoration of the monarchy in Russia.
In addition, other main goals were to meet the needs of the poor and to preserve some of the contemporary ruling methods in the Soviet Union but without dismissing traditional values and institutions.
[8] Kazembek's political popularity started to decline after it was revealed that he had held meetings with a number of Soviet officials trying to recruit him into collaboration.