Pospishil, Alexey Osipovich

Born in Bohemia, in the village of Boishche near the city of Kutna Hora . Received primary education in the city four-year school. In 1863 he entered the Kralove Hradec Gymnasium. From the second grade I began to study Slavic languages, especially Russian. The All-Slavic Congress , held in 1867 with the participation of Czech political figures Fr. Palacky and Fr. Rieger , aroused a patriotic upsurge among Czech student youth, which was allowed by intensive study of the Russian language and the flight of several students of the 7th grade of the gymnasium to Russia, where they were accepted, without a certificate of maturity, to Moscow University . Dreaming of such an escape, the schoolgirl Pospishil started correspondence with his Moscow friends and with the chairman of the Slavic Society A.F. Hilferding , but did not manage to carry out his plan: all correspondence was confiscated, Russian books were selected and measures were taken to stop all relations with Russia . In 1871 he graduated from the gymnasium as the first student.

At the end of the gymnasium, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Prague , from where he again began correspondence with Russian friends in Moscow and St. Petersburg. A year later, on the recommendation of A. I. Georgievsky , he took the place of a governor in Sazonov’s house in Moscow, intending to continue his scientific studies at Moscow University. However, due to Sazonov’s illness, which forced the whole family to go abroad for a long time, Pospishil went to Petersburg, where, at the request of A. I. Georgievsky, he was admitted to the Slavic scholarships by exam. In addition to special classes in Roman and Greek literature, he attended lectures at the Institute of History and Philology on the subjects of classical philology and at the university on Russian literature and history. January 16, 1874 passed the exam at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University for the title of teacher of ancient languages ​​in gymnasiums. The next day, he was baptized in the Vvedensky church .

January 28, 1874 was determined as a teacher of Greek at the 1st Kiev Gymnasium , in which he served until 1914. In 1882 he accepted Russian citizenship. In 1909, after a length of service of 35 years, he was left in the service for another five years. Until 1909, he taught both ancient languages, and upon the final abolition of the Greek language - one Latin. During his service in the gymnasium for about eight years, he also served as the teacher of the boarding house (1879–1887).

In addition, at different times he taught at other educational institutions: German in the music school of the Kiev branch of the Russian Musical Society (1878-1882), Latin in the private girls' gymnasium A. A. Beitel (1898-1901), in the private gymnasium B I. Petra (1906-1908), in the evening female courses of Professor V.Z. Zavitnevich (1907-1909) and in Latin courses by A. Ya. Balitskaya (1907-1909). In 1888-1892 he was a member of the test committee on ancient languages ​​under the management of the Kiev school district . Repeatedly received thanks from the trustee of the school district. On January 15, 1887, he was approved as a full-time private assistant professor at the University of Kiev at the Department of History and Philology, for practical classes with students in ancient languages. Since September 13, 1908, he was the chairman of the pedagogical council of the private women's gymnasium A.V. Zhekulina, where he also taught Latin in high school.

He took an active part in the affairs of the Kiev branch of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy, of which he had been a member continuously since its opening on April 2, 1875. In meetings of the society he reported many abstracts and reports on various issues of classical philology, some of which subsequently appeared as separate articles. In 1878 he was a member of the editorial commission for the publication of the essay of the Czech scientist Frantisek Velishsky “Genesis of the Greeks and Romans”. In 1881 he participated in the compilation, editing, proofreading and publication of the Greek-Russian Dictionary. The editors of the second edition of the dictionary (1890), corrected and significantly supplemented, were completely entrusted to Alexei Osipovich. For his energetic participation in the affairs of society and for his scientific and literary works, he was elected its honorary member. His books Plato: Criton and Plato: Apology of Socrates were included in the Illustrated Collection of Greek and Roman Classics with Explanatory Notes edited by L. A. Georgievsky and S. A. Manstein. The Latin grammars and anthologies of Pospisil, published in 1908-1910, were awarded the Emperor Peter the Great Prize by the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Public Education. Published a number of articles in the Journal of the Ministry of Education .

In addition, he posted a number of articles on the history of the Czech colonies in Russia, as well as a large article entitled “On the history of Czech-Russian relations. I. Stay of the Czech poet Zeyer in Russia ”in the weekly newspaper“ Russian Czech ”, published in Kiev in 1906-1908. Finally, Pospischil owns the Russian translation of several large “schools” for stringed instruments, published in six European languages ​​by Bosworth in Leipzig.

Since 1908 he was a full member of the Kiev club of Russian nationalists . In 1912 he was a member of the precinct election commission for elections to the IV State Duma and filed a dissenting opinion protesting against the actions of the left majority.

On February 24, 1914, he was appointed director of the Dubna Male Gymnasium, and on January 1, 1915 he was awarded the rank of full state councilor . He continued to serve in the gymnasium and after 1921, when the Rivne district moved to Poland. He retired in 1923.

He died in 1929 in his Rivne estate.

Peter was married to Elizabeth Ivanovna (b. 1853), who owned 50 tithes of land in the Volyn province. Their kids:

• Nikolay (b. 1877) graduated from Kiev 1st gymnasium (1896) and the law faculty of the University of St. Vladimir (1901). In the service of the Ministry of Railways, then in the Ministry of Finance, a member of the board of the Union of Russian Embassy.
• Ivan (b. 1882), graduated from the Kiev 1st gymnasium (1900) and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .
• Vladimir (b. 1884), graduated from Kiev 1st gymnasium (1902) and the medical faculty of the University of St. Vladimir (1910). Since 1911 - a junior doctor of the 18th Vologda Infantry Regiment .
• Andrei (b. 1886) is a graduate of the Kiev 1st gymnasium, a student of the historical and philological faculty of the University of St. Vladimir.
• Olga (1879-1960)

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1882);
• Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1894);
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1898);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (1903);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1906).
• medal “In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III”
• badge on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Kiev I gymnasium (1911)

• Selected works of Plato with notes. Issues 1-2. - Kiev, 1884-1880.
• Slavic bibliography // Slavic yearbook published by the Kiev Slavic society. Issue VI, 1884.
• Latin textbook for the lower three classes of gymnasiums and gymnasiums. Part I. - 3rd edition, Kiev, 1891.
• Latin textbook for the lower three classes of gymnasiums and gymnasiums. Part II. - 4th edition, Kiev, 1898.
• Greek-Russian dictionary published by Kiev. Department. Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy. - 2nd edition. Kiev, 1890.
• Plato: Criton. With introduction, notes and 3 figures. - 2nd edition. St. Petersburg, 1896.
• Plato: Apology of Socrates. With an introduction, notes and 5 figures. - 4th edition. St. Petersburg, 1897.
• Greek-Russian dictionary published by Kiev. Department. Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy. - 3rd edition. Kiev, 1901.
• Greek words in Russian. - Kiev, 1901.
• Critical remarks on the text of Plato's Apology of Socrates. - Kiev, 1901.
• Latin textbook for elementary grades of gymnasiums and gymnasiums. - 7th edition. Kiev, 1905.
• Latin grammar in the volume of the gymnasium course. - 3rd edition, Kiev, 1908. - Kiev, 1916.
• Latin anthology with exercises. - Kiev, 1908-1915.
• Brief Latin grammar for elementary schools and gymnasiums. - Kiev, 1910.

• Centenary of the Kiev First Gymnasium: T. 1. - Kiev, 1911. - C. 151.
• List of persons serving under the Ministry of Education for 1917. - Petrograd, 1917 .-- S. 631.
• Kalchenko, T.V. Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists: Historical Encyclopedia. - K .: Kievskiye Vedomosti, 2008 .-- S. 207.
• Unforgettable graves. Russian Abroad: Obituaries 1917-1997 in 6 volumes. Volume 5. N - P. M .: “Pashkov House”, 1999. - S. 632.