Background
He was born in Vitebsk on October 1(13), 1863 .
He was born in Vitebsk on October 1(13), 1863 .
In 1882 he graduated from gymnasium.
In 1887 he graduated from Harkovskiy and Novorosiyskiy Universities.
Since 1892 he is a master of general literature, since 1896 he is a doctor of philology, a lecturer, a professor of Harkovsk University. He studied West-European literature; "Sketches of Dante" (1892), "Dante's trilogy" (1892), "Kudruna according to renaisance" and "The first publicist of Europe Arazm Rotterdamsky" (1895), "Our contemporaries" (1899), "Assays from the history of literature and culture of Middle Ages" (1900); "Servantes's life" (1901), "Don Kihot" (1903), and so on. Since 1900 he digged out ancient Slav barrows in Horodoksk, Nevelsk, Sebezhsk districts. While studying barrows in Krivitsk, he found out useful windfall, which were conveyed to Ermitazh, he found historical museums in Moscow and Harkov, museum of statistics committee in Vitebsk.Assays from the history of literature and culture of Middle Ages.