Doctor by profession; Minister of State Charity in the last Russian Provisional Government. On the eve of the 1917 October Revol appointed Mayor of Petrograd. 1919 active in the Tactical Center, an anti-Soviet organisation in Moscow.
August 1920 given a five-year suspended prison sentence in absentia by the Supreme Rcvol Tribunal of the All-Union Central Executive Committee for his connections with the Tactical Center. 1921 member, All-Russian Committee for Famine Relief. During last years of his life worked at the People's Commissariat of Health.