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Ivan P. Pavlov’s youthful relations with parents and siblings, formal education, and social activities in Riazan’ are described. The Pavlovs, a highly achievement-oriented family descending from a lowly serf, improved their social status by serving the Russian Orthodox Church. Pavlov, the son of a priest, studied in the 1860s at the Riazan’ Ecclesiastic Seminary for priesthood. The turbulent 1860s’ decade was a period of social and political reforms. Western ideas and science were introduced to Russia. The ambitious and idealistic I.P. Pavlov was influenced by popular essays written by the journalist D.I. Pisarev, the works of the German physiologist J. Moleschott, the English writer G.H. Lewes, the German zoologist C. Vogt and the physiologist M.I. Sechenov. Losing his religious faith, Pavlov abandoned the traditional goal of becoming a priest, and, convinced that science was a road to truth and progress, left Riazan’ to study natural science at the University of St. Petersburg.
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Windholz, G. I.P. Pavlov as a youth. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 26, 51–67 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02690979
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