In article the author considers process of formation of system of secondary and professional education in the Russian Empire; analyzes the purposes of reformers and objective consequences of reforms in the second half of XIX. The Report «About reduction of gymnasia education» is provided 1887 in article, the historical and legal analysis is carried out him.
secondary education, lowest estates, Table of ranks, young nobility, serfs, territorial reform, commoners, revolutionaries, workers, proletarization, counterreforms
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