According to family legend, he was the great-grandson of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin. In the table of ranks, he did not rise above the assessor of the college, he was a holder of the Order of St. Stanislaus of the third degree, "he had no content" because he held elected positions, and worked almost all his life in the Korchevsky Zemstvo Council, where at the end of his days he rose to the rank of chairman. However, neither the lack of wealth nor the humbler position saved him from his cruel reward: in March 1917, he was burned alive by peasants in his own estate in the village of Apatovo, among deserted forests and lakes at the very edge of Kurchaevsky district. The Bolsheviks responded to his death: M. J. Kalinin wrote a note of condemnation in Parvada, and the poet Damian Bedani wrote a counter in the same issue of the newspaper. But the rebels were condemned not for the brutal murder of a citizen of Zemstvo who had six dependent children, but for setting fire to the mansion: why burn something that will soon become ours, the people's another little story from the past of Korchevsky District.