He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years.

Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for Rome to study with Canova.

Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg.

[1] In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon, Demut-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of Barclay de Tolly in Estonia.

Demut-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by Carlo Rossi: the General Staff Building, the Bourse, the Admiralty, the Mining Institute, the Egyptian Gate, the Narva Gate, and the Mikhailovsky Palace.