Keyword: «russia in the 19th century»

The service in educational institutions provided opportunities to improve the social status in the Russian Empire. This type of service could be carried out not only as the basic activity, but also on a voluntary gratuitous basis as it was with a post of the honorary warden of district schools In this article such activity of I.I. Smirnitsky, who was the Stavropol district physician, is studied. He played an important role in constructing a new building for this school.

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.