Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a painter and graphic artist.

His early paintings were exhibited by the Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated with the Russian Symbolists.

He headed the painting section of Narkompros until 1921, but fell out of official favour with the advent of Socialist Realism.

Kuznetsov's early paintings are typical of the Blue Rose group's poetic explorations of an interior, imaginative world through archetypal symbols.

After 1910 he drew increasingly on folk culture, continuing to draw on the rich colours and harmonious rhythms of the Symbolists but simplifying his compositions to depict the everyday life of village communities of Kirghizstan in Central Asia.