Background
He was born in Pruzhany in a priest’s family.
He was born in Pruzhany in a priest’s family.
In 1871 he graduated from the seminary of Kobrin, in 1877 - Lithuanian seminary in 1881 - St. Petersburg Theological Academy. Was a student of M.V.Kayalovich.
Zhukovich lectured at a religious school in Polotsk, in Vilnius, from 1891 - Associate Professor of Russian civil history of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. From 1911 - Visiting Professor. After the closure of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, he worked in the State Public Library named M.Ya.SaltykovaShchadryna in St. Petersburg.
In 1918 he was elected to be the member-correspondent in the Academy of Sciences. An author of the works "The Cardinal Gozy and Polish church of his time" (1882, MPhil), "West Russian Orthodox Seymovaya struggle with the nobility against church union" (1-6; 1901-12; doctoral thesis) and articles on the history of Belarus, the 2nd half of the 18th a. In "Seymovaya struggle ..." Zhukovich examined the international position of Rech Pospolita and its relations with Russia, Sweden, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg monarchy for the period 1587-1632; clarified the position of Belarusian and Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Polish gentry, Cossacks, Protestants, peasants and urban people. From 1914 worked on researches about the position of the people, school affairs, administration, court on the
territory of Belarus after Rech Paspalitaya’s division, worked on the early history of inventories and on the beginning of the peasant reform in Belarus, in the 19th century. He wrote bibliography on the history of Belarus.