He then traveled abroad, and upon his return, he passed his master's exam and published his dissertation titled "Experience in the Presentation of Slavic Literature in its More Important Eras".

Between 1844 and 1847, he made a two-and-a-half year tour through the Ottoman Balkans, where he collected a lot of works of South Slavic and Church Slavonic literature.

His book was published in the Scientific notes of Kazan University in 1848, helping the Russian public to get to know the South Slavic peoples better.

Using his precious collection of manuscripts, which he brought from the Slavic lands and from Mount Athos, he aroused the interest in paleography in Fyodor Buslaev and other young scientists.

[2] In 1876, Grigorovich resigned and moved to Elizavetgrad, from where he was planning to make excursions to all parts of southern Russia, but on 19 December 1876 he suddenly died.