Autograph of Andrey Aristov to Fyodor Fortunatov. Speeches and poems delivered at the solemn meeting of the ...

Autograph of Andrey Aristov to Fyodor Fortunatov. Speeches and poems delivered at the solemn meeting of the Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum on January 15, 1839.
M. In the University Printing House. 1839. 44 p. Paper cover, size 21 x 29 cm. Good condition. Age-related dirt, traces of moisture, frayed corners. There is a faded print mark on the last page. The back cover is most likely not provided by the publication. Very rare.

Includes: : "Speech on the influence of the national spirit on philosophy" by Professor of Philosophy, Master Andrey Aristov, verse by A. Zinoviev "The age of the Giant", A brief report on the state of the Demidov Lyceum for 1838, "A conversation to students finishing the course of study" by the law teacher Archpriest John.

Andrey Petrovich Aristov (1812, Mologsky uyezd, Yaroslavl Province — 1860s) was a professor of philosophy at the Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum (1838-1846).

He was born in the family of a priest in the village of Novoe, Mologsky Uyezd, Yaroslavl region. he graduated from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary (1832) and the Moscow Theological Academy (1836) with a master's degree in theology.

From 1836 he taught philosophy at the Tver Theological Seminary. From May 1838 to 1846, he was a professor of philosophy at the Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum; reduced when the new charter of the lyceum was introduced. He read logic, psychology, the history of philosophy, and moral philosophy at the lyceum. He was convinced that the philosophy "is foreign, whether it is Scottish, or French, or German, or any other kind, for us Russians, is not suitable", because "we need a philosophy that depends on the nationality".

He was engaged in meteorology and in 1843 proposed to the Yaroslavl Society of Agriculture to organize observations of the weather according to a table developed by him.

Fortunatov, Fyodor Nikolaevich (1814-1872) - writer, local historian, author of a number of articles on education.

He was born on February 1 (13), 1814 in the family of a teacher of the Vologda Gymnasium.

He graduated from the Vologda Gymnasium and in January 1830 entered the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University as a state-funded student.

In 1833, he graduated from the university with a candidate's degree and entered the professorial Institute of the Imperial University of Dorpat, but in October 1833, "taking into account both poor health and the plight of the family, " he was expelled. He was appointed a teacher of history and statistics in the Vologda Gymnasium.

At the end of January 1836, he became a member of the provincial statistical Committee, later the head of this committee. He conducted methodical classes with teachers of city and county schools, taught teachers teaching methods.

He was approved on January 25, 1838, as an inspector of the gymnasium, but continued to teach classes in history, statistics, and Greek.

On August 7, 1852, he was appointed director of the schools of the Olonets province and the Olonets Gymnasium in Petrozavodsk. Thanks to F. N. Fortunatov, a women's school was opened in Petrozavodsk in 1861.

In 1863, he retired and moved to Moscow.

He published articles in periodicals in Vologda, Petrozavodsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. His works on pedagogy and local history are known: "What a mentor should be", "Sources of success of moral education in public institutions", "Historical note to the fiftieth anniversary of the Olonets Gymnasium", "On ancient Russian costumes in the Gryazovets and Solvychegod districts of the Vologda province". In 1868, he began printing his "Memoirs of His Eminence Archbishop Irenaeus" in the Vologda Diocesan Gazette, but their printing was suspended by order of the local spiritual censorship.

He died in Moscow on November 18 (30), 1872, and was buried in the cemetery of the Alekseevsky Monastery.