Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (), also known as Paul Muratov or Paul Muratoff ( – February 5, 1950), was a Russian essayist, novelist, art historian, critic and playwright. Born in Bobrov in the

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into the family of a military doctor, Muratov attended a Cadet Corps and graduated from the Petersburg State Transport University in 1903. He traveled abroad in 1905-06, after which he moved to

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and worked at the

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until 1914. He became friends with the writers Boris Zaytsev,

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, and

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(who called him "one of the most remarkable men I ever met"), as well as the artist

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. From 1906 he began to publish in journals like ''

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'', ''Zolotoe Runo'', and ''Apollon''. He collaborated with

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on the latter's ''History of Russian Art'', and in 1913-14 he helped publish the journal ''Sofia'', dedicated to early Russian art. He was a volunteer with the Field Artillery in the Russo-Japanese War. In the First World War he rejoined the artillery, and in 1914-15 was second in command of a field battery. Later he was on air defence and staff work with the Black Sea Fleet HQ at Sevastopol. In 1921 he was arrested in connection with his work for

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; the next year he left Russia never to return. At first he lived in Germany, but in 1923 he moved to

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, where almost all the local Russian intelligentsia visited his Tuesday salons. In 1927 he moved to Paris, where he contributed to emigre journals and became an art expert for the gallery A la vieille Russie. In 1939 he emigrated to England, from 1940 living in

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; in 1946 he moved to Whitechurch House, his friend WED Allen's estate in Ireland. On October 5, 1950, he died of a heart attack at Whitechurch House and was buried at the local cemetery.

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, Gregorovius,

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and

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, but it is better than any of them."Clive James, ''Cultural Amnesia'', p. 524.

Military works (as Paul Muratoff, with W. E. D. Allen)

*''The Russian Campaigns of 1941–1943'' (1944, Penguin) *''The Russian Campaigns of 1944–45'' (1946, Penguin) *''Caucasian Battlefields'' (1953)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muratov, Pavel 1881 births 1950 deaths Novelists from the Russian Empire Essayists from the Russian Empire Russian art historians Historians from the Russian Empire Dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire Russian military personnel of World War I 20th-century Russian novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Russian essayists