Kaluga girls gymnasium

Kaluga Gymnasium is the first women's educational institution in Kaluga .

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On May 30, 1858, Governor V. A. Artsimovich created a special committee for representatives of all classes of the city to establish a first-class women's school in Kaluga according to the “Regulations”. It included: provincial and district leaders of the nobility, vice-governor N. I. Yurkevich , major general B. F. Grinfeld, director of the male gymnasium P. S. Bibikov , member of the order of the Public Charity T. D. Toropynin, city mayor M.K. Faleev and the nobleman P.N. Svistunov .

The provincial nobility on January 15, 1860, at the suggestion of the leader of the nobility F. S. Schukin , decided to donate a penny for each of their "revision souls". As a result, 3160 rubles were collected. They managed to raise an even larger sum from merchants and industrialists, who on November 12, 1858 decided to donate “5% of the price of each trade certificate” in favor of the girls' gymnasium for three years; About 4 thousand rubles were collected. in addition, by voluntary subscription from different individuals more than 6 thousand rubles were accepted. the largest donors were the executors of the Likhvinsky landowner Pyotr Alekseevich Plemyannikov - his wife Elizaveta Petrovna, the eldest son Arkady Petrovich, as well as state counselor Nikolai Alekseevich Ushakov. On part of the funds raised, on October 25, 1859, a three-story stone house on Maslennikovskaya Street ^[1] was purchased from a merchant Bilibin for 5 thousand rubles. For the repair and adaptation of the building for educational needs, another 3 thousand rubles were spent. Finally, on July 15, 1860, an announcement was posted in Kaluga, which could be read in the newspaper Kaluga Provincial Gazette on the next day, in which the Committee on the Establishment of a Grade 1 School in Kaluga informs that on August 26 this years, on the day of the coronation of Their Imperial Majesties, the opening of the school will follow ”; entrance examinations were scheduled for August 17-22. Of the 56 people, 54 were admitted: in the 1st grade - 31, in the 2nd - 10, in the 3rd - 13, including from the nobles - 11, the daughters of officials - 28. From September 1, regular classes began in the school . Tuition was 15 rubles per year.

The administration of the women's school, according to the "Regulation" approved on May 10, 1860, consisted of a trustee, the chairman of the Pedagogical Council - the director of the male gymnasium, the head, as well as the guardianship and pedagogical councils. The wife of the governor Anna Mikhaylovna Artsimovich was elected the trustee; Charlotte Fyodorovna Hertz became the boss, she had been holding a private boarding house for noble girls in Kaluga since 1853. The teaching staff of the school was composed of teachers of the male gymnasium.

Soon, in 1861, in the Kaluga province (in Zhizdra and Meshchevsk ), women's schools of the 2nd category were opened, converted in 1873 into women's gymnasiums.

In December 1870, it was allowed to transform the women's school into a seven-grade women's gymnasium. In 1871, Evdokia Vladimirovna Sukhozanet, widow of Adjutant General N.O. Sukhozaneta, was elected trustee of the gymnasium. In the same year, she left the post of boss S.F. Hertz and the widow of the current state adviser Cleopatra Ivanovna Vinogradskaya was elected instead. In the academic year 1871–72, 90 gymnasiums studied at the gymnasium, in 1875 reached 221, and in 1879, 316 students; teaching staff consisted of 14 people.

In 1881, the VIII (pedagogical) class was opened in the gymnasium, which enrolled 17 students ^[2] . It studied pedagogy, the Russian language, mathematics, history and geography; practical classes were conducted: each of the pupils of the VIII class "had in their supervision primary school students."

In 1890-1892, a three-story extension was made to the gymnasium building. However, the lack of facilities continued to be felt due to the increase in students caused by the transfer to Kaluga of the Office of the Syzran-Vyazemsky Railway and the transfer to the city of Staro and Novoingermalandsky regiments. The number of students reached 400; parallel classes were opened in all classes; the staff of teachers increased: lessons were given not only by teachers of the classical male gymnasium, but also by a real school and theological seminary ; with great difficulty compiled a schedule. In 1897, another three-story extension was completed. By 1904, the number of students increased to 700.

Among the graduates of the gymnasium: Evgenia Skvortsova (1877, gold medal) ^[3] , Lyubov Tsiolkovskaya (1900) ^[4] , Alexander Matov (1906), Alexander Peregonets (1914).

In the fall of 1918, the gymnasium became known as the 1st Soviet Unified Labor School of the 1st and 2nd levels, girls and boys began to study together in it. In 1931, the school became known as the 5th factory nine-year-old . Since 1934, the school switched to a ten-year education, and the next school became known as the 5th secondary school of the city of Kaluga . It is noteworthy that in 1952, Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava taught at the school.