ARENSKIJ, Pavel Antonovič. Livny, Orlov gub. 12.7.1887 — Sevvostlag 25.12.1941. Russian Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of a composer, Anton Stepanovič Arenskij (1861–1906) and Elizaveta Vladimirovna Lačinova. Living in Moscow, after revolution joined the Red Army and worked in visual agitation in Smolensk. From 1921 at Oriental Institute in Moscow, from 1922 nayčnyj sotrudnik, 1923-25 teaching Hindustani. He was active in the reorganization of Belarusian theatre, but from 1924 also in anarcho-mystical circles. Arrested in 1937 and spent his last five years in labour camp. Rehabilitated in 1955.
Publications: Translated: “Mir Amman. Sad i vesna”, Vostočnye sborniki 1, 1924, 136-170.
– Prževalskij, ego žizn’ i putešestvija. M.-Lg. 1931; Putešestvija Mikluho-Maklaja. M.-Lg. 1933.
Sources: Vasil’kov & Sorokina 2003, 38f. with photo and further references; Wikidata.
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