Came from the burghers of the town of Gorokhovets. Served as a civilian draftsman Nizhny Novgorod construction and traffic Commission, but in 1855 was dismissed. Four years later he again returned to service in the construction Commission. Obtained in the process of work of the Commission practical skills Ersascope was enough to start creating for residents to own the projects facades. In 1861, he designs a house A. Malyavina in Kanavino, 1862 - the house of A. Kalashnikova in Blagoveschenskaya village (St. Chernihiv, 6). In 1869 Arshawsky was attached to L. V. Dahl to perform the dimensioned drawings of the ancient monuments of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In 1872, involved in project development and construction of passage of merchants of brothers Blinov.
