Clavdius Nikandrovich Paskhalov, born in 1843 in the Kaluga province and died in 1924, was a Russian Orthodox writer, publicist, and social activist. He was a member of the Russian Assembly and an honorary member of the Russian Monarchist Union.

From 1875, Paskhalov worked in the Special Office for Credit Affairs of the Ministry of Finance, and from 1882, he became a member of the board of the Peasant Land Bank. He also participated in zemstvo assemblies in the Tarusa district (in 1889, 1901, 1909, and 1917) and in the Tula province (in 1909 and 1917). It is presumed that he retired by the early 20th century. In the late 19th century, Paskhalov acquired the estate of Kolosovo near Alexin in the Tula province, which he rebuilt in a pseudo-Gothic style.

During his government service, Paskhalov established connections with Moscow Slavophiles. As a supporter of unlimited autocracy, he actively participated in the monarchist movement of the early 20th century. Paskhalov was a member of the Russian Assembly, an honorary member of the Russian Monarchist Union, and the Kaluga branch of the Union of the Russian People, as well as an organizer and participant in monarchist congresses. He claimed that "limited or constitutional autocracy is as much nonsense as wet fire or dry water." Soviet historian A. Ya. Avrekh compared Paskhalov to Prince P. A. Kropotkin, calling him the patriarch and theorist of the Black Hundreds.

Paskhalov opposed the Stolypin agrarian reform and bourgeois transformations, believing that the destruction of the peasant commune and the development of capitalist relations lead to the collapse of traditional foundations with catastrophic consequences. In 1909 and 1912, three volumes of his "Collection of Articles, Appeals, Notes, Speeches, Letters" were published.

During the years of World War I, Paskhalov, residing in Alexin and Kolosovo, continued to participate in the activities of monarchist organizations, published articles in the right-monarchist press, corresponded with figures of the right wing, and spoke out against German influence in Russia. He was also a member of the provincial zemstvo assembly from the Tarusa district. After 1917, Paskhalov withdrew from political activity and died in 1924 in Alexin.