[1] He enrolled in Lviv University and later moved to Chişinău, where he examined the language and history of Bulgarian expatriates.

Venelin studied medicine at the Imperial Moscow University, but his interest in Bulgarian culture continued.

[2] Venelin was the author of The old and today's Bulgarians in their political, ethnographic, historical and religious relations to the Russians, published in three volumes from 1829 to 1841.

[4][2] Venelin's book Critical studies on the history of Bulgaria, published posthumously in an abridged version in 1849 in Moscow on historian Spiridon Palauzov's initiative.

Therefore Venelin, along with Vostokov, stands at the origins of that point of view, which soon became and still is dominant in worldwide Slavic studies.