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