Luckievič was born in Siauliai, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Lithuania) into the family of a petty nobleman who at the time worked as a railway official.

This followed by studies at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University and the Moscow Archaeological Institute.

He was briefly imprisoned for his political activities and in 1904 moved to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to continue studies at the University of Vienna.

In 1905 Luckievič returned to Minsk to take an active part in the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

[4] After Ivan Lucievič's death his collections of archeology, ethnography and old books were organised in 1921 into the Vilnius Belarusian Museum, which took his name.