Paul Birukoff

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Paul Birukoff

Paul Birukoff ( Russian Павел Иванович Бирюков / Pawel Iwanowitsch Birjukow , scientific transliteration Pavel Ivanovič Birjukov, born November 15, 1860 in Ivanovskoye, Kostroma governorate ; † October 10, 1931 in Geneva ) was a Russian publisher and pacifist .

Life

Paul Birukoff comes from a Russian noble family . After training in the page corps , he attended the Naval War Academy NG Kuznetsov in Saint Petersburg and then worked as a professor of mathematics and physics at the main geophysical observatory called Wojeikow in Saint Petersburg. During this time he made the acquaintance of the Russian author Lev Tolstoy . He joined his movement and became his friend and later his biographer.

In the 1890s Birukoff got involved with the Duchoborzen persecuted in Russia and supported them in emigrating to Canada and Cyprus . Then he settled near Geneva. In 1903 he became a citizen of Geneva.

In 1916 Birukoff was one of the organizers of the Congrès végétarien social together with Ida Hofmann, Otto Borngräber and Henri Oedenkoven on Monte Verità .

Publications in German

  • as ed .: Tolstoy and the Orient. Letters and other testimonies about Tolstoy's relations with the representatives of oriental religions . Zurich, Leipzig 1925
  • as ed .: father and daughter. Tolstoy's correspondence with his daughter Marie . Zurich, Leipzig 1927

literature

  • Sven Raffestin: Un citoyen d'Onex, historiographe de Toltoï: Paul Birukov , in: La mairie. Les informations de la ville d'Onex , February 1998, pp. 2-3.
  • NR: Paul Birukoff , obituary, in: Journal de Genève , October 13, 1931, No. 282, p. 5 online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pavel Ivanovich Birukov in the database of the National Bibliothèque de France .
personal data
SURNAME Birukoff, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birjukov, Pavel Ivanovič; Бирюков, Павел Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivanovskoye, Kostroma Governorate
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1931
Place of death Geneva