He was a student of the medical faculty of the Imperial Moscow University from 1793 to 1796).

He was elected professor of the Imperial University of Moscow in 1804.

He served as rector of the Imperial Moscow University from 1826 to 1833.

In all Europe, perhaps, only Russia is not proud of her language..."[1] Dvigubsky published in 1828 the first study on the flora of the Moscow region, Flora of Moscow, or a Description of Wild Plants Growing in the Moscow Province, which included 924 species, as well as a short guide to wild plants in the vicinity of Moscow (An Easy Way to Recognize Wild Plants in the Fields of Moscow, first edition 1827, second edition 1838).

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