- known as
- playwright, poet, writer, translator
- fields
- creative and professional writing, poetry, drama, translation
- awards
- Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, 1858, Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1858, Order of the White Eagle, 1865, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, 1865, Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class, 1896, Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class, 1903, Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class, 1913, Order of St. Andrew, 1858, Order of St. George, 4th class, 1877, Order of the Redeemer, 1875, Medal in memory of Russo-Turkish War 1877–78, 1878, Medal In memory of coronation of Nikolay II, 1897, Medal for works on the first general census, 1897, In memory of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, 1909, Insignias of Irreproachable Service, 1915, Order of the Crown, 1874, Order of the Wendish Crown, 1874, Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 1875, Order of the Saxe-Ernestine, 1878, House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis, 1878, Cross "Danube Crossing", 1878, Pour le Mérite, 1878, Order of Prince Danilo I, 1882, Order of Saint Alexander, 1883, Order of the Black Eagle, 1883, 1st Class of the Cross of Honour of the House Order of Lippe, 1885, Order of Ludwig I, 1886, Order of the Griffon, 1887, Order of Charles III, 1887, Order of the White Falcon, 1887, Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, 1897, French Order of Academic Palms, 1894, Royal Order of the Seraphim, 1897, Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, 1902, Order of the Royal House of Chakri, 1902, Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1909, Order for Merit, 1910, Order of the Star of Karađorđe, 1911, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, Svita, from 1898, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from 1887, Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, Russian Astronomical Society, Imperial Russian Historical Society, Nicholas Academy of Engineering, Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery, Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy