Background
Pavel Vasilyevich Nikolsky was born on the 26th of June, 1870 in the village Sotnitsyno, Shatsky uyezd, Tambov province (now village Sotnitsyno, Ryazan region, Russian Federation), in the family of a deacon.
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Pavel Vasilyevich Nikolsky was born on the 26th of June, 1870 in the village Sotnitsyno, Shatsky uyezd, Tambov province (now village Sotnitsyno, Ryazan region, Russian Federation), in the family of a deacon.
In 1884 Pavel graduated from the Shatsk school of theology. In 1890 he graduated from the Tambov Ecclesiastical Seminary, in 1894 - fom Kazan Ecclesiastical Academy.
In 1895-1904 Pavel Nikolsky was a teacher of church and biblical history in the Voronezh Ecclesiastical Seminary, at the same time, in 1899-1904 he was in charge of the library there.
Since 1896 he was published in the newspaper Voronezhskye Eparchyalnye Vedomosti. From February 1896 he taught Russian at the Diocesan Women's School. In 1904-1912 Nikolsky was a Diocesan Observer of Church Schools in the Voronezh Province, since 1912 he was the Head of Public Schools of the Province of the Don Cossacks, the Poltava Province (since 1913), and the Saratov Province (since 1915). Since 1901, Nikolsky’s research work has been concentrated in the Voronezh Church Historical and Archeological Committee, where he served as chairman (from 1907), elected to this position in 1910.
In 1907-1912 he was the editor of the annual Voronezh Church Historical and Archeological Committee, entitled Voronezhskaya Starina. He published a series of articles on the history of individual monasteries and the work "Monasticism on the Don". Author of the books: "Interests and needs of diocesan life" (1901); "The Uspensky Divnogorsk Monastery: A Historical Essay" (1904); "Letters on Russian Theology" (1905, 1907).
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1903Pavel Vasilyevich Nikolsky was a member of the provincial statistical committee, a member of the commission for the establishment of the provincial museum and became one of the founders of the Academic Archival Commission, but his main work in the early twentieth century proceeded in the Church Historical and Archaeological Committee (CIAC).
Pavel Vasilyevich Nikolsky married a noblewoman of Swedish origin of the Lutheran religion, Leontina Emilia Linberg (in Soviet times, was called Valeria Leonidovna). They had 5 daughters and a son.