[1] He was the author of books of poetry and short stories for children, having participated in the creation of school textbooks in Russian literature.
[2] Together with Aleksei Zerchaninov and D. Y. Rayhin, he wrote one of the best textbooks on literature of the 19th century, reprinted many times since 1940.
[3] Strazhev went to high school along with Georgy Chulkov, studying under the guidance of Professors Viktor Hoffman and Vladislav Khodasevich.
In 1907, he was elected a member of the Russian Society of Literature, had two collections of lyrics The Way of the Pigeon and Poems, published in 1908 and 1909 respectively, and a poetic response to Alexander Blok in 1919.
From 1921, he worked in the People's Commissariat of Education,[2] being awarded the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences without a thesis in 1944.