Lvov began his career as a deputy governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1610), Rylsk (1615), and Astrakhan (1618–20). In 1621 he was sent to the court of Danish king Christian IV with a Tsar's proposition to marry one of Christian's nieces, the…
Judging by the Muscovite records from the 16th and 17th centuries, okolnichy were entrusted with the same business in administration as boyars, with the only difference that they were placed second to boyars everywhere.
Mistrovský um v práci s jazykem a cit pro rytmus a melodii gruzínštiny jí dovolil přispět do gruzínských literárních procesů i překlady složitých textů, například románu Pod skleněným zvonem Sylvie Plath.