Maklakov was born on 13 August 1892 in the
Russian Empire, in the family of the Minister of the Interior,
Nikolai Maklakov. He graduated from the Imperial College of Law, participating in
World War I, after the
Russian Revolution, he emigrated to France, where he later converted to
Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy. For more than 30 years he researched and taught activities in the
Catholic University of Lille, where he held the chair of Russian language and literature, and taught Russian literature at the
Catholic University of Paris. He studied the
Fiodor Dostoievski. Maklakov has founded the Russian Institute at the Catholic University. He was awarded the Papal
Order of Saint Gregory the Great. Yuri Maklakov died on 3 April 1969. He was buried in the
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery. ==Sources==