Career
Among the plays he authored were The Green Island (as Vlad K-n, with Innokenty Omulevsky. Staged in 1873, published in 1883), Who Is to Blame? (1873), Two by Two is Five (1875) and A Modiste"s Diary (1875). Vladimir Kurochkin compiled and published Nevsky Sbornik (the 1867 literary compilation).
He edited Iskra magazine (1864–1867) and the Tatar-language Fayde (Virtue) newspaper (1866–1870).