Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
His most famous work is Chronicle of Four Generations (five volumes, 1881-1886), an account of the fictional Gorbatov family from the time of Catherine the Great to the mid-nineteenth century. Solovyov"s "atmosphere of nostalgia for the vanished age of the nobility" helps explain his "posthumous popularity among Russian émigréson"
He visited Paris in 1884 where he met Blavatsky and mixed with other people in the Paris occult scene, such as Juliette Adam, Vera Jelikovsky, Blavatsky"s sister, and Emilie de Morsier. At the time he was intimately involved with Yuliana Glinka, who worked for Pyotr Rachkovsky, Paris head of the Okhrana.