He was also a poet, playwright and publicist, one of the leaders of Russian Assembly,[1][2] and editor of the semi-official Kavkaz gazette.

Known as a Russian chauvinist,[3] he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenian people[4][5] and tried to set them on other populations in the Caucasus.

He was active during the period when the Imperial Russian authorities carried out a purposeful anti-Armenian policy.

According to the Russian historian Victor Schnirelmann, "it is curious that his works were re-published in Azerbaijan in the early 1990s and received wide popularity there".

[6] Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by Ziya Bunyadov's academy.