He started his academic career as a professor of law in Berlin in 1829.

[2] Later he also served as a professor of law at Saint Petersburg State University from 1843.

[3] Nevolin compiled his two-volume Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence (vols.

[2][3] His other monographs include History of Russian Civil Laws (vols.

1–3, 1851), The Formation of Governmental Administration in Russia From Ivan III up to Peter the Great (1844), On the Novgorod Piatiny and Pogosty in the XVI Century (1853) and A General List of Russian Cities (1844).