Education
He finished the historio-philological faculty of Saint-St. Petersburg University.
He finished the historio-philological faculty of Saint-St. Petersburg University.
In 1881-1882 he discovered and researched the so-called "Palmirian tarif" inscription listing ancient customs rules, then researched the Jerash Greco-Roman monument in Palestine, publishing the results in two books He was also a successful entrepreneur who opened factories of iron in the Ural region. His villa (Villa Abamelik) in Rome was owned by the embassy of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.