* 1832 – Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art ( d. 1897 )

During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, the court photographer Rafail Levitsky, the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the imperial official Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the composer Modest Mussorgsky, the cellist Aleksandr Verzhbilovich, the philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko.

On August, 15 1893 the official opening of a museum under the name " Pavel and Sergey Tretyakov City art gallery " ( nowadays Tretyakov Gallery ) took place.

Pavel Tretyakov bequeathed half of his estate to charitable purposes: on the device of a shelter for widows, juvenile children and unmarried daughters of died artists, and also on financing of gallery.

A minor planet 3925 Tret ' yakov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1977 is named after Pavel Tretyakov and his brother Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov ( 1824 – 1892 ).

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Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov showed the work of these artists in his gallery and gave them important material and moral support.

His works won the admiration of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who acquired many of them for his gallery.

Sokolniki ) was bought by famous philanthropist and art collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov.

He created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures ( Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1873, Ivan Shishkin, 1873, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1876, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1879, Sergei Botkin, 1880 ) in which expressive simplicity of composition and clarity of depiction emphasize profound psychological elements of character.

The painting Na ostrove Valaam ( On the Valaam Island ) was the first artwork, which Pavel Tretyakov acquired for his art gallery.

Receiving wide popularity, in 1894 Serov joined with the Peredvizhniki ( The Itinerants ), and took on important commissions, among them portraits of grand duke Pavel Alexandrovich, ( 1897, Tretyakov Gallery ), S. M.

Many famous people, such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Anton Chekhov, Valery Bryusov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Levitan, Pavel Tretyakov, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Vladimir Lenin, lived here.

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art.

Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov ( 1883 ).

Even such prominent connoisseurs as Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov refused to buy them.

When exhibited by Pavel Tretyakov in 1897, they brought him to attention of Sergei Diaghilev and the artist Leon Bakst.

In their home they entertained artistic people and collectors including Pavel Tretyakov.

Only the doorkeeper of the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and Pavel Tretyakov, founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, were present at his funeral in 1897.

Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (; ) ( July 22, 1895 – September 15, 1975 ) was a Soviet aerospace engineer.

Paul I (; Pavel Petrovich ) ( – ) was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801.

Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (; June 26, 1925 – January 10, 1970 ), was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft.

Walter Marvin Koenig (; born September 14, 1936 ) is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5.

Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov (; 31 March 1943 ), a Russian politician, was the founder, leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party ( known as the Kadets ).

Pavel Nedvěd (; born 30 August 1972 in Cheb is a retired Czech football midfielder.

Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (; November 14, 1918 – September 3, 1932 ), better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr.

Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (; August 25, 1850 – April 16, 1928 ) was a Russian Menshevik.

Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov (; June 29, 1895 – September 14, 1932 ) was a Russian émigré who assassinated French President Paul Doumer at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on 6 May 1932.

Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev (; January 4, 1892 – July 17, 1938 ) was a Russian literary scholar.

Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov (; January 8, 1883 – December 3, 1941 ) was a Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet.

Pavel Davidovich Kogan (; 7 July 1918, Kiev – 23 September 1942, near Novorossiysk ) was a Soviet poet.

Pavel Grigorovich Chukhrai PAR (; Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, 14 October 1946 ) is a Russian film director of Jewish origin, son of Grigori Chukhrai.

Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel (; in Moscow – in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists.

Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan (; ) (–) was a journalist, editor, publisher and an official in the Imperial Russia.

* December 28 – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

When the Soviet agent Pavel Mif arrived in Shanghai to lead the Comintern in China in December 1930, Mif criticized Li's strategy as " left adventurism ", and criticized Zhou for compromising with Li.

Several months into the 2000 – 01 season, Kariya suffered a broken right foot after blocking a shot from Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Pavel Kubina during a game in December 2000.

Sir Paul Vinogradoff (, transliterated: Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov ; 18 ( 30 ) November 1854, Kostroma, Russia – 19 December 1925, Paris, France ) was a highly reputable Anglo-Russian historian-medievalist.

Marcel Pavel ( born 4 December 1959, Galaţi County ) is a popular singer in Romania.

* Pavel Fitin ( December 28, 1907 – December 24, 1971 ), director of Soviet intelligence

# Pavel Hrivnák: 23 June 1989 – 8 December 1989

In December 1998, one of Russia's most acclaimed coaches, Pavel Sadyrin took over training duties from Irkhin.

On 23 December 2005, Zubr activists Pavel Modzharo ( Павел Моджаро ), Aleksandr Morozov ( Александр Морозов ) and another colleague were arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, which, they insisted, plainclothes security officers had planted on them.

Karl Bryullov was born on December, 12th ( 23 ), 1799 in St. Petersburg, in a family of the academician, the woodcarver and engraver Pavel Ivanovich Briullo ( Brulleau, 1760 — 1833 ).

* Marina Konstantinovna Knyazeva ( 8 December 1875 – 8 June 1941 ); m. 24 April 1894 Alexander Pavlovich Yershov ( b. 6 July 1861 ), son of Gen. Pavel Yershov

Some Christmas traditions were revived following the famous letter by Pavel Postyshev, published in Pravda on December 28, 1935.

In December 1941 he was deported by the Nazis to Terezín concentration camp, where along with Leoš Janáček's pupil Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, and Schoenberg's pupil Viktor Ullmann he became one of the major composers in that camp, one of the few in which artistic activity occurred on any scale.

Vladimir Sterligov, a student of Kazimir Malevich, along with two of his own students, Alexander Baturin and Oleg Kartashov, as well as Vera Ermolaeva and her students Marusya Kazanskaya and Pavel Basmanov were arrested in December, 1934 and taken by train to Kazakhstan.

One frosty morning on the 8th of December 1949 three brothers – Pavel, Petko and Michail Deikovi worked together at the region of “ Merul ” tile factory near Panagyurishte.

Pavel Padrnos ( born 17 December 1970 in Petrovice near Třebíč ) is a Czech professional road racing cyclist since 1996, most recently with Discovery Channel whom he was with between 2002 and 2007.

On December 13, 1825, Pavel Pestel was arrested in Tulchin.