Author: Pavel Nikolaevich Rybnikov
Alternate names: P. N. Rybnikov; Павел Николаевич Рыбников; П.Н.Рыбников
Born: 6 December 1831
Died: 29 November 1885
Bio: Pavel Nikolayevich Rybnikov (Па́вел Никола́евич Ры́бников) was a Russian ethnographer, folklorist and literary historian, credited with the discovery of the previously unknown culture of bylina and epos poetry of the Olonets and Arkhangelsk regions of North-European Russia. He spent the second half of his life in Kalisz, where he was the vice-governor of the Kalisz Guberniya, and contributed to the development of local science and culture.