Background
Pavel Pavlovich Muratov was born on March 12, 1881 in Bobrov, Voronezh, Russian Federation into the family of a military doctor.
essayist novelist playwright publicist translator art critic
Pavel Pavlovich Muratov was born on March 12, 1881 in Bobrov, Voronezh, Russian Federation into the family of a military doctor.
Pavel Pavlovich Muratov attended a Cadet Corps and graduated from the Petersburg State Transport University (now St. Petersburg State Transport University) in 1903.
Pavel Pavlovich traveled abroad in 1905-1906, after which he moved to Moscow and worked at the Rumyantsev Museum until 1914. He became friends with the writers Boris Zaytsev, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Nina Berberova, as well as the artist Nikolai Ulyanov. From 1906 he began to publish in journals like Vesy, Zolotoe Runo, and Apollon. He collaborated with Igor Grabar on the latter's History of Russian Art, and in 1913-14 he helped publish the journal Sofia, dedicated to early Russian art.
Pavel Pavlovich Muratov was a volunteer with the Field Artillery in the Russo-Japanese War. In the First World War he rejoined the artillery, and in 1914-1915 was second in command of a field battery. Later he was on air defence and staff work with the Black Sea Fleet HQ at Sevastopol.
After 1918 Pavel Pavlovich Muratov helped Grabar restore cathedrals and was associated with the only bookshop in Moscow which remained unregulated by the state - the Writer's Library. Having been banished in 1922, he spent the 1920s in Berlin, where he became part of the émigré community. By the 1930s he had moved to Paris - during the late 1920s and early 1930s he brought out several books in French, including ones on Fra Angelico and Russian icons, as well as a novel in Russian, Egeria (1922).
During World War II Pavel Pavlovich was in Ireland, working as a military journalist. He wrote with W. E. D. Allen two volumes on the Russian campaign for Penguin Books.
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