Career
Sokolovsky played the violin in the orchestra of the Maddox Theatre in Moscow. lieutenant is known that he also taught singing at the university. The music of the renowned-in-its-day opera The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker (Мельник–колдун, обманщик и сват) to the text by Aleksandr Ablesimov (Moscow, 1779.
Saint St. Petersburg, circa 1795) is attributed to him.
Only part of the score survived but Nikolai Tcherepnin completed the missing portions in 1925, enabling the work to be revived. Sokolovsky"s contemporary, composer Yevstigney Fomin later revised the music of the opera adding an overture to lieutenant
Under the reign of autocratic Czar Nicholas I of Russia, verses of Sokolovsky that were critical of Nicholas"s predecessors, were often sung at anti-Nicholas rallies.