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Ivan Betskoy

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153: 203: 281:, aimed at creating "a new race of men". Betskoy set forth a number of arguments for general education of children rather than specialized one: "in regenerating our subjects by an education founded on these principles, we will create... new citizens." Boarding schools were to be preferred to other institutions of education in accordance with Rousseau's notion that "isolating the pupils enabled their tutors to protect them from the vices of society." 254: 31: 1647: 292:
was the first female educational institution in Russia and one of the first in Europe. The Smolny was to become a training ground for Rousseau's ideas on education: the girls – viewed as the future centers of their families – were protected from every pernicious influence and their moral education
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recalled Betskoy to Russia and put him in charge of imperial palaces and gardens. Upon arriving to Saint Petersburg, Betskoy renewed his acquaintance with the sovereign's wife (and his own purported daughter), helping her depose Peter in 1762. His hopes to profit from his prominent share in the
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to get a military education before joining a Danish cavalry regiment. It was in the Danish service that he sustained a fall from a horse which forced him to retire from the service. Field Marshal Trubetskoy, having no other sons but Betskoy, called him to the Russian Empire in 1729. At first he
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Betskoy's influence continued unabated until the late 1780s when Catherine's tolerance towards the ideas of the Enlightenment began to be eroded and Betskoy was declared "reverting to childhood" on account of his advanced age. Death overtook him in his ninety-second year, when he had long been
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Although Betskoy held no post of any consequence until 1764, when Catherine made him President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, he went on to become a pillar of the Russian establishment. His position at Catherine's court is not easy to classify. Some historians define his post as a "personal
149:, whose daughter Catherine was selected as a bride for the Empress' nephew and heir, Grand Duke Peter. In truth, Betskoy had been on friendly terms with Johanna Elisabeth for two decades previous, their intimacy giving rise to rumours that Catherine was his biological daughter. 300:. This essay not only discussed the pupil's duties in regard to God and to society but also contained practical advice on health, hygiene, and other everyday matters. An extensive collection of Betskoy's aids and manuals was published in 293:
was given more prominence than intellectual one. The Empress personally maintained a correspondence with some of the pupils, perhaps viewing the school for women as a vindication of her own place at the pinnacle of Russian society.
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secretary"; others regard Betskoy as an "unofficial education minister" to the Empress. He was one of the few people who enjoyed unlimited access to the Tsarina on daily basis for most of her reign. It was at his suggestion that
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recalls an episode when Betskoy importuned the Empress with questions like "Was I not the one who incited the Guards? Was I not the one who threw money to the people?"
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incapacitated by blindness. Betskoy never married and left his estates to a natural daughter who enjoyed Catherine's particular favour; she married
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After Johanna Elisabeth was expelled from Russia in 1747, Betskoy found it necessary to lay down his offices and settle in
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for thirty years (1764–1794). Perhaps the crowning achievement of his long career was the establishment of
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to the Russian throne. The grateful empress promoted him to General Major and asked him to attend
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For the students of this institution Betskoy and Catherine brought out an instruction entitled
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David Ransel, "Ivan Betskoi and the Institutionalization of Enlightenment in Russia", in
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in 1775. This edition was revised and expanded to two volumes printed in 1789–1791.
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but later would be sent on diplomatic missions to various capitals of Europe.
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Born out of wedlock himself and anxious to reduce the frequency of
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Burials at the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
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consciousness by establishing a commercial school in Moscow.
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Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History
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The Empress endorsed his proposal and established the
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Statute for the Education of the Youth of Both Sexes
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Betskoy

Alexander Roslin
Hermitage Museum
Russian
O.S.
O.S.
Russian Empire
Catherine II
Imperial Academy of Arts
Russia's first unified system
public education
Ivan Trubetskoy
Wrede
Russian surnames of illegitimate children
Stockholm
Great Northern War
Copenhagen
aide-de-camp
coup d'etat
Elizaveta Petrovna
Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp

Paris
Encyclopédistes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
Anastasia Ivanovna, Landgravine von Hesse-Homburg
Demetre Cantemir
Moldavia

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