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.
Maklakov has founded the Russian Institute at the Catholic University.
Russian press about Catholicism / / Ringing of church bells, 1932, № 8.
Grezin II alphabetical list Russian graves in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.