After studying in the Odessa gymnasium and Richelieu's lyceum he joined Kharkov University's history and philology faculty, from which he graduated in 1854.

[3] Pyotr Veinberg's literary career started in 1851 when the Panteon magazine published his translation of George Sand’s Claudie drama.

His poems and translations started to appear regularly in Sovremennik, Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya, Syn Otechestva, later in Nekrasov's Otechestvennye Zapiski.

He became known as a satirist when the Veseltchak magazine published in 1858 his poetry cycle Grey-Colored Melodies and a series of humorous sketches called Life and Its Oddities.

On return to the capital he joined the Saint Petersburg University's Literature cathedra and lectured in several colleges and courses.