May's Gymnasium

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MAY'S GYMNASIUM, men's private high school founded by teacher K. I. May (1824-1895) as a classical school in 1856 and reorganised into a gymnasium in 1865. It had a actual department opened in 1868 and transformed into a Real school (which along with general humanitarian subjects had a strong focus on mathematics and physics) in 1895. It received the rights of a state gymnasium in 1882. Widely using visual teaching techniques, excursions, physical and chemical experiments, the gymnasium taught a number of additional subjects for aesthetic, physical, and technical education. Among its pupils were artists A. N. Benois, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, N. K. Roerich, K. A. Somov, and V. A. Serov, architects Y. Y. Benois, A. A. Ol, and I. A. Fomin, and scientists O. D. Khvolson, Y. I. Frenkel, and D. S. Likhachev. It was situated at the corner of First Line of Vasilievsky Island and Tuchkovaya Embankment and at 13 Tenth Line of Vasilievsky Island until it moved to a new building at 39 Fourteenth Line of Vasilievsky Island in 1910 built by architect G. D. Grimm (memorial plaque).

Reference: Лихачев Д. С.,Благово Н. В., Белодубровский Е. Б. Школа на Васильевском. М., 1990; Полевая М. И. Гимназия К. Мая // Дома рассказывают. СПб., 2001. Вып. 1. С. 269-317.

Е. М. Balashov. Benois Alexander Nikolaevich
Benois Yuly Yulievich
Dobuzhinsky Mstislav Valerianovich
Fomin Ivan Alexandrovich
Frenkel Yakov Ilyich
Grimm German Davidovich
Khvolson Orest Danilovich
Likhachev Dmitry Sergeevich
May Karl Ivanovich
Ol Andrey Andreevich
Roerich Nikolay Konstantinovich
Serov Valentin Alexandrovich
Somov Konstantin Andreevich
1st Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
10th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
14th Line Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Лихачев Д. С., Благово Н. В., Белодубровский Е. Б. Школа на Васильевском. М., 1990
Полевая М. И. Гимназия К. Мая // Дома рассказывают. Л., 1991 1856