Later, he served as a justice of the peace in Zvenigorodsky uyezd, and then was a managing director of Tashinskiy iron plant.
"[1] In 1882, Pavel started his service as an official "for special orders" in the Minister of Internal Affairs under the direction of Nikolay Ignatyev.
Together with another notable slavophile, Ivan Aksakov, he participated in the preparation of the project of emperor's manifest that should have reanimated Zemsky Sobor.
He was the author of the drama "Alesha Popovich, a performance in 5 acts based on the Russian fairy tales" (Moscow, 1869), which was warmly accepted by critics and made him famous among contemporary writers.
According to Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the language he used in his works was heavy, with the strong inclination towards "samokovannii" (Russian: самокованный, self-forged) words.