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P. N. (Pavel Natanovich) Apostol
1872–1942
A Russian émigré writer with a sharp eye for history, books, and public life, he moved between economics, journalism, and cultural scholarship. His surviving work brings old Russia into view through the testimony of foreign visitors, making the past feel vivid and immediate.
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Московия в представлении иностранцев XVI-XVII в.
by P. N. (Pavel Natanovich) Apostol
About the author
Born in 1872, Pavel Natanovich Apostol was a Russian economist, journalist, historian, and noted bibliophile. Catalog and reference sources connect him with works on Russian finance and Soviet economic conditions, while literary listings also preserve his historical book Moskoviia v predstavlenii inostrantsev XVI–XVII v., a study of how foreign travelers described Muscovy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Accounts from Russian book-history and art-archive sources describe him as an active figure in the Russian émigré world in Paris. He was associated with journalism, taught at the Russian Commercial Institute, and is remembered as chairman of the Society of Friends of the Russian Book in Paris, as well as a collector of "Rossica"—books and materials relating to Russia.
Sources agree that Apostol died during the Second World War, in 1942. Some records simply give 1942, while others add that he perished in Auschwitz, which reflects the tragic end of a life spent studying, writing, and preserving Russian cultural history.