 He was an industrious costume-sketcher, preparing at least 1,087 drawings for 25 or more productions including those for the original productions of "The Sleeping Beauty" (1890) and The Nutcracker (1892).As a great admirer of Tchaikovsky's music, Vsevolozhsky was instrumental in bringing to the stage three of that composer's later operas, namely "The Enchantress" (1886), "The Queen of Spades" (1889 – with libretto after Pushkin by the composer's brother, Modeste Tchaikovsky), and "Iolanta" (1892 – also with libretto by Modeste Tchaikovsky).