In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, The Moscow Times, and was the chief editor of "Capital" weekly.

[citation needed] In 2007, at the invitation of Alexander I. Vinokourov [ru], Bershidsky went into business as the managing director of KIT Finance Investment Bank.

[2][4] He has written several novels in the genre of art-detective: Rembrandt must die (2011), Devil's Trill, or test Stradivari (2011), Eight Faberge (2012).

In 2011, Bershidsky retired from Slon.ru and began working in the Ukrainian magazine consultant project "Focus.

In 2014 after the Russian annexation of Crimea, Bershidsky announced his emigration to Germany.