Academic Gymnasium

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ACADEMIC GYMNASIUM, the first general secondary education institution in Russia. It was founded as a part of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1724 and opened in January 1726 to provide training to boys coming from various free social classes for entering the Academic University. They were taught Latin, German, and French languages, Russian literature, history, geography, mathematics, natural sciences, and drawing. M. S. Lomonosov was the director of the gymnasium in 1758-65 and drew up its regulations in 1759. A juvenile department was opened in 1765. United with the Academic University as the Academy School in 1770s, it provided a university curriculum to students, also called eleves, from among senior pupils of the gymnasium. The gymnasium was situated in the same building as the university in Troitskoe Metochion at the corner of Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island and Bolshaya Neva River Embankment moving to the Barons Stroganov's house in Tuchkovaya Embankment in 1764. It numbered 112 pupils in 1726, 40 in 1759, 29 in 1779, and 87 in 1802. The gymnasium was closed in 1852, its 55 pupils making up the first class at the newly-established Petersburg Regional Gymnasium. Among its charges, the gymnasium had I. I. Lepekhin, N. Y. and P. N. Ozeretskovsky, A. G. Volkov, V. V. Popugaev, Y. D. Zakharov, V. M. Severgin, et al.

References: Толстой Д. А. Академич. гимназия в XVIII столетии: По рукоп. док. Архива АН. СПб., 1885; Марголис Ю. Д., Тишкин Г. А. Единым вдохновением: Очерки истории университетского образования в Петербурге в конце XVIII - первой половине XIX в. СПб., 2000; Материалы по истории Санкт-Петербургского университета XVIII в.: Обзор арх. док. СПб., 2001.

Е. М. Balashov. Lepekhin Ivan Ivanovich
Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich
Margolis Yury Davidovich
Ozeretskovsky Nikolay Yakovlevich
Ozeretskovsky Pavel Yakovlevich
Popugaev Vasily Vasilievich
Severgin Vasily Mikhailovich
the Stroganovs
Tolstoy Dmitry Andreevich, Count
Volkov Alexander Gavrilovich
Zakharov Yakov Dmitrievich
5th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Bolshaya Nevka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Толстой Д. А. Академическая гимназия в XVIII столетии: По рукоп. док. Архива АН. СПб., 1885
Марголис Ю. Д., Тишкин Г. А. Единым вдохновением: Очерки истории унив. образования в Петербурге в конце XVIII - первой половине XIX в. СПб., 2000
Материалы по истории Санкт-Петербургского университета XVIII в.: Обзор арх. док. СПб., 2001 Russian Academy of Sciences
Academic University
1724