MARTYNOV, IVAN. - Russian writer, Jesuit, b. at Kazan (Russia) on 7 Oct. 1821 and d. at Cannes on 26 Apr. 1894. He pursued his studies at the University of St Petersburg. Count Gregorio Suvalov (1804-59), who would one day become a Catholic and a Barnabite religious, engaged M. as tutor to his children. During a journey abroad, M. too decided to embrace Catholicism and become a Jesuit. He entered the novitiate of the Jesuit province of France at St-Acheul on 18 Sept. 1845. In 1856 he took his final vows. Gagarin (v.) he founded in 1857 the review Les études de philosophie et d'histoire, later renamed Etudes, and established the Russian Library of Paris, still in existence.
M. devoted his entire life to the apostolate of the pen. Among his numerous publications, the most important is the Annus Ecclesiasticus graeco-slavicus (Brussels 1863), an appendix to vol. XI of the Bollandists. This work brought M. fame in Rome, where he was appointed pontifical theologian for Eastern affairs at the Vatican Council.
