4th Moscow Gymnasium

Fourth Moscow Grammar School
Fourth Moscow Grammar School
Founded by	1849
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Fourth Moscow Grammar School

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History

The 4th Moscow men's gymnasium with a noble boarding school was established on June 1, 1849. At the closing of the Moscow Nobility Institute , whose further existence was considered useless due to the proposed opening of the 2nd cadet corps in Moscow, difficulties were found in the distribution of the majority of the institute's pupils among existing educational institutions. In this regard, N. M. Konshin was ordered to open the 4th gymnasium in the building of the institute. In addition to the building, the Moscow University was also transferred debts from the Noble Institute of the gymnasium. Thus, until 1861, the 4th Moscow gymnasium was located in the house of Pashkov .

Initially, 146 students were enrolled in the seven classes of the gymnasium, mainly the children of the nobility - 115 people. There were 81 boarders. The teaching staff consisted of: a director, inspector, law teacher, 7 senior and 3 junior teachers, as well as a teacher of calligraphy, drawing and drawing; the boarders were watched by two warders.

In 1849, a reform was carried out in the Russian Empire, according to which the gymnasium course was divided into primary (general) and special education. In the lower three classes of the gymnasium they taught the basics of science, taught the Russian language, mathematics, history, geography, German and French, calligraphy, drawing, drawing and the law of God. In the next four classes of the gymnasium proper, for those except compulsory subjects, such as philosophy, literature, economics, aesthetics, psychology, mathematics, physics and others, additional lessons were introduced in Russian, mathematics, and law. For those who were going to continue their studies at the university, they were also given thorough knowledge of Latin (for all) and Greek (for those who entered the philosophical department) languages ^[1] . In 1850, the first graduation was made among 17 people, of which one received a gold medal, and 4 received the right to the rank of XIV class.

In 1851, the boarding school of the 4th gymnasium was joined to the boarding house of the 4th gymnasium, which increased its number by 37 people; however, in 1854, at the 1st gymnasium, the boarding school was renewed.

By 1859, the number of students in the gymnasium reached 323 people.

In 1861, in order to vacate the building under the Rumyantsev Museum , the possession of the Princes Trubetskoys on Pokrovka was acquired for the gymnasium ^[2] ; at the same time, the outstanding debt to the Moscow University was written off. The transfer of the 4th gymnasium to the neighborhood with the 2nd and 3rd gymnasiums was accompanied by a significant change in personnel: the number of students decreased from 368 (late 1860) to 286 (1863), including 66 boarders and 89 half-boomers. In a three-story old house with two wings, classes began on September 1, 1861. On the top floor of the main building housed the house church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1864, a new charter of the gymnasiums was adopted, according to which the gymnasium was divided into three types: classical with two ancient languages, classical with one ancient language and real gymnasium. The 4th Moscow male gymnasium entered the category of classical ones with the teaching of two ancient languages.

In 1882, there were 480 students in the gymnasium; by 1898 - 442 people, and noble children made up only 50%.

Famous Graduates

See: Graduates of the 4th Moscow Grammar School

Directors

See also: Directors of the 4th Moscow Gymnasium

1849-1850: Nikolai Mikhailovich Konshin
1851-1858: Baron Alexander Ivanovich von Reichel
11.19.1858-1873: Pyotr Mikhailovich Koposov
1874-1881: Oscar Germanovich Gebel
01/21/1888-1887: Alexander G. Novoselov
14.3.1887—1896: Lev Stanislavovich Kulchitsky
1896— ?: Dmitry Alekseevich Sokolov

Teachers

See: Teachers of the 4th Moscow Grammar School

Notes

↑ Already in 1851, the Greek language was replaced by a course of natural sciences; in each city, teaching of the Greek language remained in only one gymnasium, in Moscow in the second .
↑ The heirs of Prince Yuri Ivanovich Trubetskoy - a minor son, a cunker of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, Prince Ivan Yuryevich and his mother Olga Fedorovna - sold the property for 125 thousand rubles. When making the deed, they paid 25 thousand, by October 1, 1861 they paid the same amount, and the mother and son agreed to expect the remaining 75 thousand for 4% per annum until they were sold at the Rumyantsev Museum in St. Petersburg. Adaptation and redevelopment of premises for the gymnasium over the next ten years will cost her even more than 40 thousand rubles. Funds were borrowed from Moscow University.

Literature

Sokolov D.A. Fiftieth anniversary of the Moscow 4th gymnasium. (1849-1899 gg.). - M .: type. “Rus. t-va oven. and ed. affairs ", 1899,

Links

List of graduates of the Moscow male 4th gymnasium from 1850 to 1899
Pelevin Yu. A. Fourth Moscow Men's Gymnasium. 1849-1918

[1] Already in 1851, the Greek language was replaced by a course of natural sciences; in each city, teaching of the Greek language remained in only one gymnasium, in Moscow in the second .

[2] The heirs of Prince Yuri Ivanovich Trubetskoy - a minor son, a cunker of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, Prince Ivan Yuryevich and his mother Olga Fedorovna - sold the property for 125 thousand rubles. When making the deed, they paid 25 thousand, by October 1, 1861 they paid the same amount, and the mother and son agreed to expect the remaining 75 thousand for 4% per annum until they were sold at the Rumyantsev Museum in St. Petersburg. Adaptation and redevelopment of premises for the gymnasium over the next ten years will cost her even more than 40 thousand rubles. Funds were borrowed from Moscow University.