Pavel
Eduardovich Lind

Russia • 1865−1942

Biography and information

A Native Of Irbit. Professional education is not received, drawing and music were taught in the local grammar school and my father's house – mountain of the employee. He studied at the medical faculty of Kazan University (1885-1887). Visited the sculpture Studio, where he showed himself capable modeller. Together with V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) was expelled from the University for participating in student meeting (1887) and exiled in Birsk. Married the daughter of the Perm merchant-millionaire Bezborodov (1895), brought up six children. A multi-talented man: painter, sculptor, composer (played beautifully on the piano and violin), poet and translator (she was fluent in six European languages), florist. Lived in Ufa (since 1920), worked in Potrebsoyuz. He returned to the family in Birsk (1936), where in the winter of 1942 died of pneumonia. On Kaslinsky plant his models were cast nine castings.