The literary pseudonym Pavlos Nirvanas is known to the writer Petros K. Apostolidis. His father, merchant Konstantinos Apostolou Koumiotis, was from Skopelos and his mother, Marietta Ioannou Ralli, from Chios. He was born in Mariupol, Russian Empire in 1866 and died in Athens on November 28, 1937.