Russian Educator. He is credited with the establishment of Russia's first unified system of public education. The son of Prince Ivan Trubetskoy, a Russian Field Marshal, and his Swedish mistress, Baroness Wrede, he was a Russian school reformer who served as Empress Catherine the Great's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1764 until 1794. Additionally, he founded two homes for illegitimate children and orphans in order to implement his educational theories, first in Moscow (1764) and then in Saint Petersburg (1770). He also deplored the fact there existed only two classes of society, either peasants or noblemen, and sought to spur the development of middle-class consciousness by the establishment of a commercial school in Moscow. He became blind and feeble-minded late in life and died at the age of 91.
Russian Educator. He is credited with the establishment of Russia's first unified system of public education. The son of Prince Ivan Trubetskoy, a Russian Field Marshal, and his Swedish mistress, Baroness Wrede, he was a Russian school reformer who served as Empress Catherine the Great's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1764 until 1794. Additionally, he founded two homes for illegitimate children and orphans in order to implement his educational theories, first in Moscow (1764) and then in Saint Petersburg (1770). He also deplored the fact there existed only two classes of society, either peasants or noblemen, and sought to spur the development of middle-class consciousness by the establishment of a commercial school in Moscow. He became blind and feeble-minded late in life and died at the age of 91.
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