Keyword: «kalmyks»

The growth of the educational level of the provincial intelligentsia in the 19th century: the first teacher with a university education in the schools of Stavropol and Samara P.K. Sychugov

Author:

Ludmila Artamonova

Based on archival materials the article presents an analysis of the activities of the first teacher with a university education in the Kalmyk school in Stavropol and the district school in Samara. This fact can be considered as an evidence of the growth of the educational level of the provincial intelligentsia in Russia. Nevertheless during formating the new Samara province in 1851, the authorities did not entrust P.K. Sychugov to head the provincial directorate of schools.

Keywords: modernization, culture, schools, russia in the 19th century, history of the middle volga region, kalmyks