Although he was deemed a professor of physics at Moscow State University, he was derided as the "monument's son" by people who questioned his competence.

He was an ardent defender of the classical physics propounded by Isaac Newton and was particularly noted for his vitriolic denunciations of Albert Einstein.

However he gained acceptance from Joseph Stalin, whose works he scoured for references to physics, which he would then cite.

He wrote "Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory" which appeared in 1922 in the first issue of Under the Banner of Marxism (UBM).

Here Timiryasev argued that: Sixteen years later he wrote "The Theory of Relativity as a Source of Philosophical Idealism" which also appeared in UBM in 1938.