Pavel Rovinski

Pavel Apollonovich Rovinsky (Russian: Па́вел Аполло́нович Ровинский, 22 February 1831 — 15 January 1916) was Russian historian, Slavist, ethnologist and geographer.

Early life and studies Pavel Apollonovich Rovinsky was born on 22 February 1831 in , a village in the Kamyshinsky Uyezd in the Russian Empire, to Apollon Ivanovich Rovinsky and Marya Andreevna Rovinskaya (née Zhukovskaya). Pavel's father was a nobleman and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and his mother was the daughter of a landowner.

Rovinsky enrolled at Saratov Gymnasium in 1842. Around 1844, he met Alexander Pypin with whom he attended an extracurricular history and literature club. Rovinsky and Pypin would stay close friends for the rest of their lives. He graduated in 1848, excelling in Greek. A Society of Montenegrin-Russian Friendship founded in Podgorica on 24 November 2007 also bears Pavel's name.

Selected works Obodska štamparija na Rijeci Crnojevića u Crnoj Gori i njen značaj na slovenskom jugu, Odbor za proslavu četiristogodišnjice Obodske štamparije, 1893 Crna Gora u svojoj prošlosti i sadašnjosti (Montenegro in its Past and Present), , Zapisi O Srbiji, 1868-1869: Iz Putnikovih Beležaka,