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Pavel Ivanovich Biriukov
1860–1931
Best known as one of Leo Tolstoy’s closest biographers, he was a Russian writer and public figure whose life brought him into major moral and social debates of his time. His work helped preserve Tolstoy’s ideas and story for later generations.
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Tolstoi's leven Zijne persoonlijke herinneringen, brieven en aanteekeningen 1828-1863
by Pavel Ivanovich Biriukov
About the author
Born in 1860, Pavel Ivanovich Biryukov became known as a Russian writer, historian, and especially as an important biographer of Leo Tolstoy. He is closely associated with Tolstoyan circles and is remembered for documenting Tolstoy’s life and thought in detail.
Biryukov’s career was shaped by both literature and public causes. He was involved in social and religious questions of the late imperial Russian period, and his name is also linked with efforts on behalf of the Doukhobors, the pacifist Christian community that drew support from Tolstoy and his followers.
He died in 1931. Today, he is chiefly remembered for helping to preserve the personal history and intellectual legacy of one of Russia’s greatest writers.