Basistov, Pavel Efimovich

Born into a petty bourgeois family. In 1839 he graduated from the 2nd Moscow gymnasium , in 1843 - the 1st department ( historical and philological ) of the philosophical faculty of Moscow University ^[1] and began teaching in the Tver gymnasium as a Greek language teacher. Less than a year later he was transferred to the 1st Moscow Gymnasium - to the position of teacher of literature. During the years 1844-1877, he also taught at the 2nd Cadet Corps , the Alexander and Nikolaev Women's Institutes, the philistine and theatrical schools.

In 1857, he left teaching and decided on a railway service. A few years later, at the request of Count Stroganov, he again received a teaching position at the Nikolaev Orphanage Institute ; resumed teaching in other educational institutions. A few years before his death on June 10, 1882, he was appointed by the Duma to be the head of Moscow city schools, a member of the school department of the city government, and a member of the school city council. Then the training department of the Society for the dissemination of technical knowledge elected him as its chairman.

Died on June 10 ( 22 ), 1882 . His grave is in the necropolis of the Novodevichy Convent .

P.E. Basistov is the author of the widely used “Chrestomathy for Use in the Initial Teaching of the Russian Language”, which has survived a large number of publications, as well as the “Syntax System” (M., 1848) and “Notes on the Practical Teaching of the Russian Language” (M., 1868). He also wrote: "An Essay on the Life and Works of V. A. Zhukovsky, Reading for the Young." (M., 1854); “Nestorov’s chronicle. With notes and a dictionary ”(M., 1869); “Iphigenia in Tauris, the tragedy of Euripides, translation from Greek” (St. Petersburg, 1876) and others. His articles were published in the Journal for Education, Domestic Notes , St. Petersburg Vedomosti ^[2] and other publications .

Of all his pedagogical works, the “Reader” was of the greatest importance. In it, he first carried out the principle, which later became universal - to take material for reading children from classical Russian authors, from Russian life and Russian life. He was a champion of Russian beginnings not only in school, but also in life and literature in general, he fought with all insincere, pompous, avoided common morality in every possible way and had a strong moral influence on his many students.

• Basistov, Pavel Efimovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Basistov, Pavel Efimovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.