How energetic the activity of the Kazan Admiralty was at that time can be seen from the following: while undertaking the Persian campaign (in 1722), Emperor Peter the Great sent 22 thousand troops through Astrakhan to the mouths of the Terek, housed in 8 military, 79 last ships and 200 “island” boats built according to Swedish model. Commanded the flotimay ©. M. Apraksin, who raised the Admiral General’s flag on the 18th field of 1722 on a Kazan-built ship called “Princess Anna” and under the command of Lieutenant Soimonov. The result of the campaign was the capture of Baku and the capture of some of the Kasshi regions. The following year, the ships of the Kassian fleet supplied supplies from Astrakhan with provisions and shells to the Russian troops, who remained in the newly acquired position under the command of generals Matyushkin and Levashev, and until 1726 they did not stop cruising along the western shores of the Cassian Sea. The composition of this cruising fleet is as follows: 15 gekbots armed with 18-pound caliber cannons, 5 gallots
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and a few beads; If necessary, this fleet could raise 4 infantry regiments. She had a lot of work to do: transporting troops, delivering food, delivering shells, mail, hydrographic work and general cruising service. Some ships were lost in the sea, others were spoiled, and therefore, already in 1724, it was decided to build five tekboats annually for the Kasli Sea, and the Admiralty Board stated that ships built from pine wood in the Kasli sea could not withstand service of more than three years, so it was decided to build half of the tekboats from oak. |
From the most important data it is clear that within 10 years (1725-1785) 80 ships were built for the Cassia Sea, including 51 boats and three packet boats: together with 119 ships remaining in stock by 1725? ABOUT.? y?
VB and of those built since 1722, 158 ships; this amounted to a very hefty Caspian flotilla of 192 flags. Thus, the Kazan Admiralty worked diligently, brought to its feet by the energetic Transformer of Rosea. Preoccupied with the Admiralty and the founding of factories, Peter the Great did not forget the issue of public education. In 1714, it was ordered to open schools at all bishops' houses and noble monasteries; In Kazan, on this occasion, a school for children of the clergy was opened at the 9 Yeodorovsky monastery. When later (in 1738) this school was transformed into a seminary, it was transferred to the Zelantov Assumption Monastery, and then a foreign school was set up (later - Slavic-Latin). The seminary quickly developed and the number of students in it reached 500. Then a battalion school was opened for 850 soldier children. ' Of course, the nobles did not send their children to either school; the class spirit of that time did not allow the possibility of combined education of noble children with children of commoners. This circumstance prompted the decree
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1758 on the establishment of two gymnasiums in Kazan, one for nobles, and the other for other classes; This decree remained almost a dead letter for 80 years, since the only educational institution, called the Kazan Gymnasium, barely eked out its miserable existence until 1788, when it was closed due to lack of funds. In essence, these first ill-fated 80 years of existing Kazan gymnasium presented a curious picture; It was supported at the expense of Moscow University, which provided such limited funds that poverty appeared among the high school students, and many of them earned their living from alms. After quite a few years of experience in maintaining gymnasiums in this way, Moscow University finally succumbed to necessity and assigned a salary of 6 rubles to the 20 poorest gymnasium students. per month In fact, 6 rubles was a lot of money at that time: then a quarter of rye cost 60 kopecks, a fathom of firewood 85 kopecks. etc. but the point is that they received a salary
Pe only 20 students, the rest still had to live in poverty. The gymnasium was reopened in 1798, and its original character was partly changed and it received the name of a military educational institution, since among the subjects taught there were already tactics, fortifications, artillery and other military sciences. To attract nobles to the gymnasium, it was given various benefits and the name “Imperial,” which helped to a certain extent; the number of students in it reached 180 at the beginning of the current century, a large figure for that time when the nobility was not so eager to send their children to science. We must, however, take into account that these 180 people gathered from a vast area: the Kazan gymnasium was the only one in its district, covering a gigantic region from the Kasshi Sea to Chechera and, moreover, all of Siberia.