In 1903 he graduated from the presitious at Ternopil, obtaining high marks in his school final exams. His father now entrusted him with management of the family estates at in the hill country south of Ternopil, and at that time still in the Austrian province of Galicia. Here he ran a vineyard which, at approximately 30 hectares, was the largest in the so-called eastern borderlands of what became, after 1918 the Polish Republic. By the time the Polish Republic met its end the winery was one of just two such enterprises in the entire country.