Background
He was born into a Jewish family in the city of Taganrog, studied at the Taganrog Boys" Gymnasium, and graduated from the law faculty of the Saint St. Petersburg University.
He was born into a Jewish family in the city of Taganrog, studied at the Taganrog Boys" Gymnasium, and graduated from the law faculty of the Saint St. Petersburg University.
In 1873-1874, he was the publisher and editor of the newspaper Novoe Vremya. In 1876 he acquired the newspaper Novosti, which he transformed into a political tribune. Notovich was the author of Historical review of Russian publishing legislature ("Исторический очерк русского законодательства о печати"), which was published in Saint St. Petersburg in 1873 and 1893.
He also published several philosophical essays, including "Some philosophy" ("Немножко философии", 1886), "Some more philosophy" ("Еще немножко философии", 1886), and "Love and beauty" ("Любовь и Красота", 1888), that were later translated into German and French.
In 1874, Notovich published the popular History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle. Some of these plays were staged in theaters in Saint St. Petersburg and Moscow.