Senkovsky was born on his mother's estate in Antagotony, located some 30 miles away from Vilna (Vilnius in modern-day Lithuania, then in the Russian Empire).

Having mastered the Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew languages, he was assigned to the Russian mission in Constantinople, which occupation gave him ample opportunities to travel in Syria, Nubia, and Egypt.

In the latter case he not only developed a writer but she regarded him as a parent, Akhmatova would eventually publish her own magazines and in time her own memoir of Senkowsky.

[3] A very prolific writer, Senkovsky contributed articles on a wide range of topics, from mathematics to medicine.

Under the pen-name of Baron Brambeus he published a series of fantastic voyages, including one to the center of the Earth (The Sentimental Journey to Mount Etna) and another to an antediluvian Egyptian civilization flourishing on the now-frozen Siberian plain (The Scientific Journey to Bear Island).