Background
Pavel Dmitrievich Korin was born on July 8, 1892 in Palekh, Russia. He was a son of Dimitriy and Nadejda (Talanova) Korin.
Pavel Dmitrievich Korin was born on July 8, 1892 in Palekh, Russia. He was a son of Dimitriy and Nadejda (Talanova) Korin.
From 1912 to 1916 he studied at the Moscow Arts School with K. Korovin and S. Maliutin.
In the 1920s, he worked on a monumental group picture, Rus' Ukhodiashchaia. From 1932 to 1959 he was a head of the very active restoration department of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In the 1930s, he created a series of portraits of famous contemporaries.
During World War II, he worked on historical and patriotic subjects (Aleksandr Nevskii and others). After the war, with his brother A. Korin, involved in restoration work on paintings from the Dresden Arts Gallery which were removed to the USSR from Germany but later returned. In the 1950s, he was involved in designing mosaics for the Moscow metro.
On March 7, 1926 he married Praskovja T. Korina, .