Revival: Moved on! From Kashgar to Kashmir (1935)

About Pavel Stepanovich Nazaroff

Paul Nazaroff (Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov) (died 1942) was a Russian geologist and writer who was caught up in the Russian Revolution and became the leader of a plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia.He was born in Orenburg about 1890 the son of the local mayor and mine owner. He qualified as a geologist at the University of Moscow. In August 1918 he was living openly at Tashkent under the local Soviet while aiding both White and British Forces in Central Asia with information and assistance to help forestall the spread of Bolshevik power in the region. Arrested by the CHEKA in October 1918 he was one of the main organisers of a coup which temporarily overthrew the Tashkent Soviet on 6 January 1919 and incidentally freed him from prison. This was defeated when the railway workers changed sides when they learned that the new government was royalist and reactionary. Nazaroff himself managed to evade the pursuing Bolsheviks and escaped through the mountains to Kashgar in China in early 1920 as he tells in his book Hunted Through Central Asia (translated into English in 1932 and reissued is 2002).