His father David Meiselman, who was a coachman, managed a post coach station on the Siberian Route.

In 1925 he moved to Leningrad, where at first, he worked as a technician and then an assistant at the department of the State Institute of the History of Arts.

He was close friends with N. Kalma (the pen name of Ann Kalmanok) and her husband Boris Gold, a professor and specialist in cars.

He was also friends with Naum Berkovsky, a literary critic and specialist in literature, and Gennady Epiphanov, a graphic artist.

[1][2] At the time of his arrest Alexander Meiselman was working at the Russian Academy of Arts as a professor teaching theatre history.

However, his poetic interludes in his late book Lam, written more like an industrial novel, are reminiscent of the avant-garde experiments of Barka Poetov.