Pavel Rybnikov
| Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov | |
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| Born |
Павел Николаевич Рыбников 6 December 1831 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 November 1885 (aged 53) Kalisz, Poland |
| Occupation | ethnographer, folklorist, historian |
| Awards | The Demidov Prize (1864) |
Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov (Павел Николаевич Рыбников, 6 December 1831, Moscow, Russian Empire, – 29 November 1885, Kalisz, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire) was a Russian ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian, credited with the discovery of the previously unknown culture of bylina and epos poetry of the Olonets and Arkhangelsk regions of North-European Russia. He spent the second half of his like in Kalisz, where he was the vice-governor of the Kalisz Guberniya, and where he contributed to the development of local science and culture.
Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov was born in Moscow to a family of staroobryadtsy merchants. After graduating the 3rd Moscow Gymnasium with a silver medal in 1850, he enrolled into the Moscow University's History and Philology faculty. It was at that time that he got close to the Moscow Slavophiles' circle, notably Aleksey Khomyakov and Konstantin Aksakov.
In 1859, arrested in Chernigov for contacts with the local Old Believers community (where he went to study the local history and literature, on Khomyakov's recommendation), Rybnikov was pronounced "a revolutionary" (the fact scathingly commented upon by Alexander Hertzen in Kolokol) and deported to Petrozavodsk. There he started the extensive study of the Northern Russia's folklore, culture and history.
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