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Paul or Pavel Nikolayevich Demidov (6 September 1798 – 25 March 1840) was a Russian nobleman of the Demidov dynasty.

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Life

The eldest son of Nikolay Demidov and Elisabeth Alexandrovna Stroganoff, he fought as an officer in his father's regiment and received his baptism of fire at the battle of Borodino in 1812. After the war he entered the Chevalier Guards regiment. In 1828 he purchased the Sancy diamond and he received his discharge in 1831 with the rank of captain, at which point he entered civil service as governor of the province of Kursk. Also in 1831 he founded the Demidov Prize (decided by the Russian Academy of Sciences).

In 1834 he entered service in the Ministry of the Exterior as court Huntsmaster, later State Councillor. In 1836 he married the well-known society beauty and maid-of-honour to her majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovnya, baroness Aurora Karamzin (1808–1902) - they had one son, Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov (1839–1885), whose daughter Aurora was mother of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.

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