Background
Pavel Ivanovich Birukov was born on November 3, 1860, in Kostroma, Russian Federation.
The N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy
biogeophysicist literature educator
Pavel Ivanovich Birukov was born on November 3, 1860, in Kostroma, Russian Federation.
Pavel Ivanovich studied at Pazesk corps in Naval Academy (1880), he was on a trip abroad, in 1884 he graduated from Hydrographic Department of the Maritime Academy (now The N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy).
In 1892-1893 Pavel Ivanovich was a close employee to Tolstoi in the Organization of Famine Relief for Peasants in the Ryazan and Samara provinces, he compiled reports for Russian Vedomosti, which Tolstoy edited. He actively participated in the fate of the Doukhobors persecuted by the government, for which in 1897 he was sent under strict police surveillance in Bausk in the Kurland province.
In 1912-1920 Pavel Ivanovich was in Switzerland. When he returned to Soviet Russia in 1920, he managed the Manuscript Department of the Tolstoy Museum. In the middle of 1920 Pavel Ivanovich returned to Canada, he became seriously ill and was transported by his wife to Switzerland, where he died.