Career
The heir to a sugar fortune, he took piano lessons from Felix Blumenthal and initially hoped to become an operatic tenor. He was the patron and co-publisher of the Saint St. Petersburg musical journal Muzikalniy sovremennik founded in 1915. (Prokofiev dedicated his Piano Sonata Number 5 to Suvchinsky) Suvchinsky emigrated from Russia in 1922 and lived in Berlin and Sofia, where he founded the Russian-Bulgarian Publishing House.
Then in Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life.