Petri school
| Petrischule Средняя школа № 222 с углублённым изучением немецкого языка «Петришуле» |
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| type of school | School with extended German lessons |
| founding | 1709 |
| address |
Невский пр. д. 22/24 |
| place | St. Petersburg |
| City with subject status | St. Petersburg |
| Country | Russia |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 56 '15 " N , 30 ° 19' 27" E |
| student | about 500 |
| Teachers | 60 |
| management | Anna Polyakova |
| Website | www.petrischule.spb.ru |
The Petri School (also St. Peter's School , Russian Петришуле ) is a traditional, founded in 1709, secondary school in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg .
Today it is characterized by particularly intensive German lessons . Until the beginning of the First World War , the language of instruction was German, but due to the political tension between Germany and Russia at the time, it was changed to Russian, but the German language remained one of the main focuses of the school. The Petri School is still a training center for numerous prominent people.
history
The Petri school was in 1709 at the initiative of Peter I founded. It was particularly frequented by Baltic Germans and other Germans living in Russia and soon became one of the most prestigious schools in Saint Petersburg. The interim teachers included the physicist Emil Lenz , the linguist Nikolai Gretsch and the mathematician Nikolai Braschman . In 1840 Friedrich Lorentz became director. In 1912 the Petri School had about 1,600 students, about 25% of them Russians.
Until then, the Petri School was partly financed by the German-Lutheran congregation of the nearby Sankt Petri Church . With the beginning of World War I, tension between Germany and Russia increased, as a result of which the school's language of instruction was forcibly changed from German to Russian. Although the German language remained one of the main focuses of the Petri School, numerous teachers and students had to leave the school due to the changeover.
During the time of the Soviet Union, the Petri School was renamed, but got its historical name back in 1996. Today it has about 500 students.
Well-known former students
- Nikolai Benois , architect
- Richard Bergholz , landscape painter
- Alfred Blumenfeld , diplomat
- Eduard Brandt , physician (comparative anatomy) and zoologist ( entomology )
- Leonid Breitfuß , marine biologist and polar researcher
- Alexander Brückner , historian
- Otto von Böhtlingk , Indologist
- Daniil Charms , writer
- Erich Diehl , classical philologist
- Eduard Dobbert , art historian
- Martin Eppinger , architect
- Georg Forster , naturalist
- Alexander Galitsch , philosopher and logician
- Herbert Girgensohn , theologian
- Mikhail Gromov , mathematician
- Wilhelm Junker , Africa explorer
- Gerhard von Keussler . composer
- Mikhail Kosakov , actor and director
- Christoph Casimir Lerche , personal physician to the Russian Emperor Alexander I.
- Peter Lesgaft , anatomist
- Lev Lossew , poet and literary critic
- Juri Lotman , literary scholar and semioticist
- Gregor von Helmersen , geologist and explorer
- Carl Friedrich Keil , theologian
- August David Krohn , zoologist
- Elisabeth Kulmann , poet
- Friedrich Fromhold Martens , lawyer and diplomat
- Nikolai Menschutkin , chemist
- Maximilian von Messmacher , architect
- Modest Mussorgsky , composer
- Theodor Pleske , zoologist
- Carlo Rossi , architect
- Mikhail Saizew , chess player
- Lou Andreas-Salomé , writer
- Gennady Shatkov , boxer
- Friedrich Schubert (geodesist) , officer and geodesist
- Viktor Schröter , master builder
- Konstantin Thon , architect
- Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova
- Wolfgang Wachtsmuth , educator
- Nikolai Sergeevich Volkonsky , infantry general and military governor
- Pavel Chichagov , Admiral
See also
literature
- Heinrich Pantenius, Oskar Grosberg (ed.): German life in old St.Petersburg. A book of memory . Riga 1930. pp. 50-68.
- Hermann Held: Directory of the pupils of the schools in St. Petri 1862-1912 . St. Petersburg 1913.
Web links
- Official website of the school (Russian)
- Wiki "Petri Encyclopedia" about German-speaking schools in St. Petersburg and their graduates (Russian)