The School is named after a Russian scientist and Orthodox priest acclaimed as 'the Russian Leonardo da Vinci' of the Russian Silver Age. He is also a Christian martyr of the Soviet era and was recently canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

After the bolchevik revolution of 1917, Pavel Florensky took the courageous decision to remain in his homeland.

Florensky was then professor of mathematics and physics at the university of Moscow. He was eventually sent to a Siberian concentration camp by the communist regime and executed in 1937.

He is best remembered for his magnus opus 'The Pillar and Foundation of Truth'.