Yuri Nikolayevich

Yuri Nikolayevich Maklakov (13 August 1892 – 3 April 1969) was a Russian teacher and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy.

Biography

Maklakov was born on 13 August 1892 in the Russian Empire, in the family of the Minister of the Interior, Nikolai Maklakov. He graduated from the Imperial College of Law, participating in World War I, after the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to France, where he later converted to Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy. For more than 30 years he researched and taught activities in the Catholic University of Lille, where he held the chair of Russian language and literature, and taught Russian literature at the Catholic University of Paris. He studied the Fiodor Dostoievski. Maklakov has founded the Russian Institute at the Catholic University. He was awarded the Papal Order of Saint Gregory the Great. Yuri Maklakov died on 3 April 1969. He was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.