Mikhail Grigoryevich Pavlov (Russian Михаил Григорьевич Павлов) ( – ) was a Russian academic, largely responsible for spreading the philosophical ideas of the Naturphilosophie of Schelling in Russia.Dissertation (PDF) p.25. He was a professor at Moscow University.
He graduated from Moscow University in 1815.p.27 After a doctorate in medicine, and two years travelling in Europe to study science, he was given a chair in Moscow in 1821, in Agriculture, Mineralogy and Forestry. Subsequently he wrote textbooks in agriculture and chemistry, and lobbied for changed agricultural practices.p.28Schelling appears as a kind of absentee grand master of a new higher order. The most popular university lecturer of the period, Professor Pavlov, was master of ceremonies, greeting students at the door of his lecture hall with his famous question: "You want to know about nature, but what is nature and what is knowledge?"Billington, James H., The Icon and the Axe (New York: Vintage Books), p. 312.
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References Brockhaus and Efron biography (in Russian) krugosvet.ru bio (in Russian) Moscow University page, with picture (in Russian)