[1] His mother was a serf on the estate of the poet Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov, who is generally assumed to have been his father.

[2] In 1810, he exhibited at the Salon, receiving a gold medal from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the title of "Academician" from the Imperial Academy.

During the French invasion of Russia, he was under house arrest and police surveillance for two years, until Napoleon's defeat.

[1] His best-known students at the Academy included Antoni Oleszczyński, Fyodor Iordan and Georg Johann Heitman [ru].

In addition to his regular engravings, he provided illustrations for works by Vasily Zhukovsky and Gavrila Derzhavin, as well as a translation of the Iliad by Nikolai Gnedich.