Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov

Pavel Nikolayevich Demidov (Russian Павел Николаевич Демидов; born August 17, 1798 in Saint Petersburg, † April 5, 1840 in Mainz ) was a Russian officer and philanthropist.

Demidov, son of the mines operator Nikolai Demidov Nikititch with the Baroness Elizabeth Alexandrovna Stroganova was educated at the Lycée Napoleon to Paris. He made the campaigns of the Russian army from 1812 to 1814 with, took 1826 as captain in his resignation and was from 1831 to 1834 governor of Kursk.

He established a foundation for the widows and orphans of fallen officers in the Turkish war with a capital of 625,000 rubles and donated half a million for the benefit of charitable institutions in Moscow and the same sum to improve the lot of Siberian exiles.

Even the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, he pointed to significant amounts of what these since 1831 to 1865 gave (and again in 1993 ) annually the Demidov Prize.

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  • Military person (Russian Empire )
  • Person in the Napoleonic Wars (Russian Empire )
  • Captain
  • Governor
  • Russian
  • Born in 1798
  • Died in 1840
  • Man
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