Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
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. lieutenant was at that time that he got close to the Moscow Slavophiles" circle, notably Aleksey Khomyakov and Konstantin Aksakov.
There he started the extensive study of the Northern Russia"s folklore, culture and history.
The Songs Collected by P.N.Rybnikov, published in 4 volumes in 1861—1867 made him a well-known author both in Russia and abroad. Relieved of the status of an "exile" and granted the permission to move to either of Russia"s major cities, what he did instead was marry a Polish lady and settle in the city of Kalisz to spend there the rest of his life.
After the recreation of the Kalisz Guberniya in 1857 he was appointed to the position of vice-governor of the Guberniya. He supported the creation of the regional newspaper, Kaliszanin, and was its censor for sixteen years.
Despite being a Russian official administering a territory in a Russian partition, he is remembered in Poland as especially friendly towards the Polish people and Polish culture.