Pavel Medvedev

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Pavel Medvedev (1892-1938) was a Russian literary scholar. He was a teacher, social activist, and friend of Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as of Boris Pasternak and Fyodor Sologub.

Throughout his life, he had managed to fight for the just cause of the social activists of the Russian overlords of democracy and try his hardest to attain some of the common principles that befell many in Russia at that time

At the time of Medvedev's life, Russia's system was clear. There was the monarchy, the capitalists, and the poor working class, who had to work long hours every day in order to fulfill their higher classed bosses and please them. Medvedev was one of the middle class people who managed to help the poor get back onto their own two feet.

One of his works, Formal Methods in Literary Scholarship, has been thought by scholars to have been written by his mentor Bakhtin.

He was arrested and shot in 1938.