Education
In 1981 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate of Sciences) with his thesis on Russian diplomatic etiquette of the 15th-17th centuries.
In 1981 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate of Sciences) with his thesis on Russian diplomatic etiquette of the 15th-17th centuries.
He also writes non-fiction books about history, and currently adapts his stories for television serials. In 1975, he started working as a history teacher at a Moscow school and only retired in 2004 despite being in love with teaching. His early fiction works were occasionally published in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics through the late 1970s and 1980s but he mostly owed his initial popularity to the well-distributed non-fiction book The Sovereign of the Desert about Roman Ungern von Sternberg, issued in 1993.
lieutenant influenced Victor Pelevin"s novel Chapayev and Void, issued in 1996.
He gained more popularity when in 2001 he switched to detective stories set in the late 19th century, re-inventing the fame of detective Ivan Putilin. In 2003 the short-listed Yuzefovich"s detective story Kazaroza.
Yuzefovich"s books have been translated and issued in English, French, German, Italian, Mongolian, Polish, and Spanish languages. As of October 2012, only two of his fiction works were published as parts of anthologies in English.