Career
He tied for 3rd-4th and drew a match for the third place with Emanuel Schiffers (1:1) at Sankt St. Petersburg 1878/79. Solovtsov took part in the correspondence match between the Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg chess clubs (January 1878 – March 1879), which ended with the score 2:0 in favor of the command of Moscow. In 1894 he defeated Jacques Mieses, toured in Moscow.