Seventh St. Petersburg Gymnasium

The seventh gymnasium was transformed on July 1 ( 13 ), 1879 from the 6th grade “Second Gymnasium”, which was opened on March 27, 1867 as a 4th grade “on the basis of the Charter and the staff of the gymnasium and gymnasium, the highest approved on the 19th day of November 1864 of the year ” ^[1] . Appointed by the inspector of the Second Gymnasium (former inspector of the Larin Gymnasium), Vasily Vasilievich Grigoriev, on his instructions, found for her the house of the merchant of the 1st Guild of Ivanov on 5th Rozhdestvenskaya Street (No. 12) - this was the first address of the 7th St. Petersburg Gymnasium.

Immediately after the opening of the gymnasium, they began to look for a more extensive room for it and as a result, it was decided to build its own building. At the beginning of 1883 a plot of land was purchased; in 1884, the district architect Andrei Nikolaevich Iossa developed the project; On May 19, 1885, a ceremonial laying of the building took place on Kirillovskaya Street (11) . At this time, the director of the gymnasium was A. A. Hoffmann. The consecration of the new building took place the very next year (September 18, 1886), and classes began on September 22. By this time, the number of students was 660 people.

In 1879, dancing classes were introduced at the gymnasium; in 1887, the teaching of the "law of the Jewish faith" began at the gymnasium; in 1889 the lessons of "military gymnastics" began.

In 1897, director N.K. Nevzorov , who was appointed to the gymnasium, turned to philanthropists for help on building a house church; The desire to build it at one’s own expense in May 1897 was expressed by the rector of the St. Andrew’s Athos monastery in St. Petersburg, Archimandrite David and the monk of the same monastery, I. M. Sibiryakov . The assembly hall of the gymnasium located on the 3rd floor of the main building was adapted for the Nikolskaya Church; the consecration of the church took place on December 4, 1897.

After the death of Nevzorov, N. A. Karpov ^{[2] [3] [3]} was appointed director.

Since 1965, the building housed a secondary school No. 165 of the Central District.

See also: Graduates of the St. Petersburg 7th Gymnasium

• 1892 Nikolai Karinsky
• 1893 Mikhail Rudnev
• 1896 Vladimir Kurbatov (gold medal)
• 1906 Sergey Auslander
• 1906 Boris Engelhardt

See also: Teachers of the Seventh St. Petersburg Gymnasium

• mathematics: Tsytovich, Erast Platonovich (since 1900)
• literature: Tsvetkov, Alexander Alexandrovich

• Kusov N.A. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the St. Petersburg seventh gymnasium (formerly Second Gymnasium), 1867-1892. - SPb., 1893

• Seventh St. Petersburg Gymnasium
• 7th Gymnasium - School N 165 of the Central District