Background
Pavel Alexandrovich Viskovatov was born on November 24, 1842, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. He was the son of a military historian Alexander Vasilievich Viskovatov.
Saint Petersburg University
Larinskaya Gymnasium
editor historian of literature pedagogue
Pavel Alexandrovich Viskovatov was born on November 24, 1842, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. He was the son of a military historian Alexander Vasilievich Viskovatov.
After graduating from the Larinskaya gymnasium, Pavel Alexandrovich studied at the historical-philological faculty of Saint Petersburg University, then in Berlin and Leipzig University. In 1866 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig for his dissertation on the humanist Jacob Wimpfeling.
In 1868-1871 official of special assignments under General Field Marshal A.I. Baryatinsky. After lecturing (1871) at Saint Petersburg University was reckoned with the Ministry of Education and was sent for 2 years abroad. Upon return, newspaper editor The Russian World (1873). From September 1873 assigned to the university, where Pavel Alexandrovich gave lectures on the history of the new Russian literature for students of all faculties. In 1880 he was appointed an ordinary professor of the university, in 1885 Pavel Alexandrovich was approved in this title without defending a dissertation in Russia - in recognition of his scientific achievements.
The Dorpat University professor of Russian language and literature (since 1873), Pavel Alexandrovich devoted himself to re-discovering, compiling, and studying the vast and dispersed Lermontov's legacy. He prepared and in 1891 published in Saint Petersburg the first-ever edition of The Works of Mikhail Lermontov. Featured here (in volume VI) the first-ever comprehensive academic biography written by Pavel Alexandrovich, has been used as a blueprint by all the subsequent Russian biographers ever since.
Pavel Alexandrovich had five sons: Pavel, Vasily, Dmitry, Alexander, and Valerian.