Pavlov, Platon Vasilievich

Born on October 7 ( 19 ), 1823 in the family of the landowner of the village of the Customs Nizhny Novgorod district P.F. Kozlov.

In 1844 he graduated from the course at the Main Pedagogical Institute , at which he was left. In 1847 he received a master 's degree in Greek literature and in the same year was appointed an associate professor in the Department of Russian History at Kiev University . In 1849, P.V. Pavlov was awarded by Moscow University a doctorate in historical sciences, political economy, and statistics and was appointed professor.

When he was a professor in Kiev, Pavlov extended the field of history teaching, the first in Russia introducing in 1858 “The course on the history of plastic arts in connection with the development of culture”; he also set up a museum of fine arts at Kiev University, laying the foundation for a special arts library under him.

Pavlov’s main merit, the organization in Kiev and then in St. Petersburg , where he was transferred in 1859 as a member of the archaeographic commission , the first Sunday schools in Russia, dates back to the same time.

In 1861, he was elected professor of Russian history at St. Petersburg University , but did not read a single lecture there, because he was on vacation at first, then the university was temporarily closed, and on March 5, 1862, Pavlov was arrested and on March 6 an administrative order He was expelled to Vetluga for the fact that, in public reading in favor of needy writers, he finished his speech on the millennium of Russia with the following words:

Russia now stands above the abyss, into which we will plunge, if we do not turn to the last means of salvation, to rapprochement with the people. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Contemporaries considered Pavlov “not quite a normal person”, “in the conversation he made a heavy impression of the mentally ill.” In the denunciation of agent of the third division, it was noted that Pavlov read “in a special enthusiastic, prophetic, loud voice, often raising his hand and index finger”, and one of the contemporaries present at the reading testified that “the entire reading of [Pavlov] received a noticeably shouting character” .

After some time, Pavlov’s exile was softened by transfer to Kostroma , and in 1866 he was allowed to return, after which he lived in Tsarskoye Selo , teaching statistics at the Konstantinovsky military school ; in 1870 he was appointed a member of the archaeographic commission, where he prepared Siberian annals for publication ^[2] , and in 1875 he was approved as an ordinary professor at the University of Kiev at the newly established department of history and theory of art, which he held until 1885.

Pavlov began his literary activity with translations in the " Domestic Notes " on a student's bench. Great expectations that Pavlov aroused early, he justified with his first major work: “On the historical significance of the reign of Boris Godunov” (1849; reprinted in 1863, Pavlov’s doctoral dissertation), which attracted universal attention. Then his articles followed: “On Zemsky Sobors of the 16th and 17th centuries” (“Domestic Notes”, 1860, Nos. 1 and 2), “Millennium of Russia” (“Academic Monthly Words for 1862”; separately, St. Petersburg, 1963). Judging by the last work, he had broad plans for studying Russian history, in the correct understanding of which he saw the self-knowledge of the people; more and more, also, he was interested in the history of culture.

The link of 1862 found Pavlov in the prime of his mental life, but when, many years later, he resumed interrupted labor, the forces undermined by the difficult living conditions during the exile and in the first years after returning from there were already insufficient to bring them to the end; his “Experience of Introduction to History” (“ Domestic Notes ”, 1874, Nos. 5 and 6) and “Introduction to the Science of Art” (“Kiev University News”, 1880) give only an indication of what he could do with others circumstances.

Other printed works of Pavlov:

• “Comparative statistics of Russia” (1869, course taught at the Konstantinovsky School),
• "Pocketbook of comparative statistics of Russia, with a map of industry" (1869),
• “On the Significance of Some Frescoes of the Kiev-Sofia Cathedral” (“Proceedings of the Third Archaeological Congress”, Kiev, 1874),
• “On the subject of the Department of Theory and History of Art” (“Proceedings of the IV Archaeological Congress” in Kazan, 1877),
• Articles on the history of art and foreign policy in "Domestic Notes", "Contemporary", "Bee", "Art Gazette" and others.

• Pavlov, Platon Vasilievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.