Andrei Stepanovich Voronov - famouspedagogical figure from the Russian Empire. The first to raise the issue of introducing compulsory education in the country. Awarded prizes from the Geographical Society and the Academy of Sciences.
Andrei Voronov was born in Olonetskyprovince in 1820. The boy's family was poor. Andrei graduated from gymnasium in Petrozavodsk. Voronov's life path predetermined acquaintance with the Russian language teacher A.V. Nikitenko. The latter was a professor at St. Petersburg University, where he entered.
After his graduation he worked as a teacher in Pskov onfor five years (1840-1845). Voronov taught logic at the city gymnasium and Russian literature. In 1845 the young man returned to the capital and settled in the 5th gymnasium (later Andrey Stepanovich became its director). A year later the hero of this article was invited to teach at the university. Andrei Voronov taught there the Russian language course until 1860.
Simultaneously with the lectures, the teacher performed the director's duties in two metropolitan gymnasiums (2 nd and 5 th). He also headed several schools in the St. Petersburg province.
In his leading work, Andrei Stepanovichwas in various committees attached to the Ministry of Education. From 1850 to 1856 it was a committee to review training manuals. And for the next five years Voronov was on the scientific committee. With the advent of Alexander II in 1855, he was appointed director of this ministry.
In 1861, Andrei Voronov left the capital.This was due to his appointment to the Vilnius Academic District. By order of the Minister of Education Count Putyatin, Andrei Stepanovich received the post of assistant trustee. Two years later A.V. Golovin. He recalled Voronov back to Petersburg and returned it to the academic committee. Only now Andrei Stepanovich became its chairman. Under the minister Golovin (1862-1866), the hero of this article developed the statutes and drafted plans for gymnasiums, public schools and universities. Count Golovin Count DA. Tolstoy transferred the teacher from the chair to the rank of an ordinary member of the council.
In 1875, Andrei Stepanovich died.
In 1874The MNP issued the "Regulations on People's Primary Schools". In the same year, Andrei Voronov published a "draft of the rules," which should have been guided by zemstvos when introducing compulsory education in their territories. But this was not considered a single bill for the whole of Russia. In one publication only a few zemstvo meetings were considered, and in the other, St. Petersburg. Since the draft rules were written for individual provincial and district zemstvos, the MNP decided to reject it. After all, the introduction would violate the balance between different parts of the state, giving an essential moral superiority to one province in front of others. Shortly thereafter, Voronov died, and subsequent initiatives to introduce compulsory education in Russia were not implemented very soon.
Andrei Voronov, whose biography is presented above, wrote articles in such magazines as "Star" and "Contemporary". He did this from 1840 to 1845, when he taught in Pskov.
