[1] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle described Youriévitch as a "Gentleman Farmer in Russia, Scientist in France, Diplomat in Russian Imperial Foreign Service, Painter, Etcher and Sculptor.

His Russian name was Sergei Alexandrovich Yurievich, which was translated into French as Serge Youriévitch.

His grandfather, Semyon Yurievich (1798—1865), came from a noble family in Mogilyov (supposedly descended from Ivan the Terrible), in present-day Belarus.

[7] Youriévitch married Princess Helene Lipovatz, daughter of Prince Jovan Popović-Lipovac, a Montenegrin aristocrat and Russian Imperial Army general.

[13] In 1917, the Yurievich family lost their land in the Saratov Region after the downfall of Nicholas II and the monarchy.

[7] Youriévitch began studying politics at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg (then called Petrograd).

[2] In 1895 he was sent to the École Libre des Sciences Politique, where he acted as secretary to the Russian Ambassador in Paris, then as cultural attache.

Rodin was "enormous" with his influence, and in 1909, Youriévitch resigned his political duties and began exhibiting his work at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.

The impression I received on having the thing round and solid in my hand instead of flat on a canvas was so strong that I wondered why I had done no sculpture before.

I immediately took up sculpture, and on coming back to Paris I got a studio in the Hotel Biron upstairs over Rodin.

"[19][20] In 1929, Youriévith made an Iroquois head, today preserved to the musée du nouveau monde of La Rochelle (France).

that "Youriévitch enjoyed for many years an intimate acquaintance with the leading scientists and psychic researchers of Paris and was able to take part in many of their experiments.

He and his family, including his son-in-law Sir Edward Hulton, were buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in Île-de-France north of Paris.