20 Facts About Pavel Rovinsky

Pavel Apollonovich Rovinsky was Russian historian, Slavist, ethnologist and geographer.

Pavel Rovinsky studied philology at Kazan University from 1848 to 1852.

In 1860, Pavel Rovinsky had his first trip to the Slavic lands, which ended unsuccessfully.

Pavel Rovinsky arrived in Budapest in early March 1868, continuing to Belgrade by ship.

Pavel Rovinsky was hoping to reach Uzice, and then continue along the Morava valleys, where he'd conduct his ethnographic research.

Pavel Rovinsky traveled to Siberia to study the Russian population in its Fast East.

Pavel Rovinsky had close ties with the family of Chernyshevsky, with whom he met during his student days and who was the cousin of his friend Alexander Pypin.

Pavel Rovinsky tried to reach Chernyshevsky to dissuade the fears of his family, and tried to get to his place of detention with the caravan.

Pavel Rovinsky served as the director from December 1873 until the first half of 1878.

Pavel Rovinsky accepted the offer of Alexey Suvorin, editor of the newspaper Novoye Vremya, and having left the post of director of the orphanage, went as a correspondent to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pavel Rovinsky arrived in Vienna on 10 June 1878 from where he reported on preparations for the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pavel Rovinsky responded to Austro-Hungarian preparations for the Bosnian campaign with a series of angry articles.

In 1890, the Montenegrin prince Nicholas, who took a liking to Pavel Rovinsky, unexpectedly invited him to excavate the ancient Roman city of Doclea.

The Glas Crnogorca newspaper wrote about them, and the Russian Journal of the Ministry of National Education published a large essay by Pavel Rovinsky titled "The Excavation of Ancient Dioclea" in several of its issues.

In 1898, Pavel Rovinsky, who was at that time a translator and consultant to the Russian diplomatic mission in Montenegro, returned to Saint Petersburg to publish the second volume of his work Montenegrin history, which he had worked on for about seven years.

Pavel Rovinsky continued living in Montenegro with short interruptions until the spring of 1906, for almost 27 years.

In 1908, Pavel Rovinsky moved to Gatchina where he lived with his daughter Ekaterina and her family.

Pavel Rovinsky fell seriously ill in late 1915 and died on 15 January 1916.

Pavel Rovinsky was buried in the writers' footways section of Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, where his rites were read by hieromonk Mardarije Uskokovic.

Pavel Rovinsky's burial was attended by Chernyshevsky's son Mikhail, Rovinsky's godson.