Pavel Dmitrievich Korin (Palekh, 1892 - Moscow, 1967) was a Russian painter and art restorer, best known for the preparatory work on the series *Farewell to Rus* and for his long career as a restorer in the Soviet Union. The son of an icon painter, he was trained first in the icon tradition and later in easel painting, during a period when Russian art was moving between traditionalism and the avant-garde.
After studying at the icon painting school in Palekh, he moved to Moscow in 1908 and worked in an icon shop at the Donskoy Monastery. In 1911 he became an apprentice to Mikhail Nesterov on frescoes in a Moscow church, and Nesterov encouraged him to pursue formal training in easel painting. He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1916, where he studied under Konstantin Korovin and Leonid Pasternak. That same year he worked on the frescoes of the mausoleum of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and travelled to Yaroslavl and Rostov to study old Russian frescoes.
In the 1920s and 1930s he combined painting with teaching and with the study of human anatomy. In 1926, when the Convent of Marta and Mary was closed, he and his brother Aleksandr smuggled out the iconostasis and much of its frescoes. In 1931 he began heading conservation and restoration at the Pushkin Museum, a post he held until 1959, and afterwards he directed the State Central Restoration Office until his death. In the 1940s he painted many portraits of figures from the Soviet intelligentsia, and in the 1950s he worked on mosaics for several Moscow Metro stations.
His legacy lies in both painting and restoration. He received state honours including the Stalin Prize in 1954 and the Lenin Prize in 1963, and was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1962. His former studio on Malaya Pirogovka Street is now a museum bearing his name. He was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.