Author: paul

Recommendation Letter from my PPE tutor from Oxford
Recommendation Letter from my Bioethics & Mechatronics tutor from Stanford
Recommendation Letter from my English tutor from Oxford

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2023 Recommendation Letter from my PPE tutor from Oxford
2023 Recommendation Letter from my Bioethics & Mechatronics tutor from Stanford
2023 Recommendation Letter from my English tutor from Oxford
2022 Recommendation Letter from my French tutor from Oxford
2022 Recommendation Letter from my Classics tutor from Cambridge
2022 Recommendation Letter from my German tutor
2020 Recommendation Letter from my English Literature tutor from UCL 2020 Recommendation Letter from my Chinese tutor from New York University
2020 Recommendation Letter from my Architecture & Italian tutor
2019 Recommendation Letter from my Geography tutor from Cambridge
2025 Recommendation Letter from my Art tutor from Beijing Academy of Fine Art
2025 Recommendation Letter from my CCF military commander

Runs 800 m in 2m 16 (best of his year),
Runs 1500 m in 4m 58 (best of his year),
Runs 5 km cross country in 17m 58s, (best of his year between 2021-2025),
Practices rugby, fencing and water polo,
serving as captain of his school’s water polo team.

A short CV available upon request.

Recommendation letter from my military commander.

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2021 ACADEMIC & ART SCHOLAR AWARDS Stowe School’s Academic Department
Top 20 Academic Students at Stowe School

2021 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AWARD Stowe School’s Academic Department
Commended Essay Entry

2022 RELIGIOUS STUDIES AWARD of the Independent Schools Religious Studies Association (ISRSA)
UK’s Top 10 finalist of the Essay Competition

2023 JOHN LOCKE PHILOSOPHY AWARD at Oxford and Princeton Universities
Top 1% Worldwide Finalist in Philosophy Essay Competition

2024 PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION AWARD by Friends of Stowe Society
Awarded for the best student in Philosophy of the year

2024 HEAD OF YEAR AWARD Stowe’s School Academic Department
Awarded for the highest-performing Academic student of the year

2024 HISTORY PRIZE Extended Project Qualification of the AQA A-level
Awarded A* at EPQ

2025 HISTORY PRIZE Stowe School’s History Department
McElwee Travel Award

2025 HISTORY PRIZE St.Hugh’s College, Oxford University
Commended at the Julia Wood Essay Competition

2025 HISTORY OF ART PRIZE Stowe’s School Art Department
Crispin Robinson Art History Prize

2025 LITERARY PRIZE Selected Top 10 at the Elmbridge International Literary Competition
For his short story “The River Wolf”

2025 HARVARD CLUB BOOK PRIZE Harvard Club of the United Kingdom
Selected as one of the top 200 most promising academic students in England

Read a Chapter of “Forgotten Tales and Lost Legends of Ostroco”.

Browse the entire Historico-Geographic portfolio.

Video of the published book.

Check out the Genesis of the illustrations for the First Chapter.

Audio of the introduction chapter read by the author.

FINAL ESSAY
“Exploring the ideology of Nikolay Lvov’s Palladian church architecture
and its influence on the identity formation of the Russian élite.”

NOTES FOR THE ESSAY
A comprehensive list of the buildings constructed or designed by Nikolay Lvov
A compiled file of all documents, including a comparative architectural analysis

FINAL ESSAY IN RUSSIAN
Exploring the ideology of Nikolay Lvov’s Palladian church architecture

AUDIO FILES
Podcast in English based on Paul’s essay
Podcast in Russian based on Paul’s essay