The two-story stone building of the Tobolsk Provincial Men’s Gymnasium was built before the great fire of 1788. Originally it was a two-room two-story house of the merchant Vasily Kornilyev, the owner of the printing house, where the first literary magazines were published in 1748. In the 1780s, the house was transferred to the city council for arrears. Having survived the fire of 1788, it became the residence of the governor of the Tobolsk viceroyalty, A.V. Alyabyev, the father of the famous composer. The first years of the son of the viceroy, the future composer A. A. Alyabyev, were spent here in this house. In 1797, after Alyabyev left Tobolsk, the Main National School, founded in 1789, was transferred to this building. On March 10, 1810, the day of the accession of Alexander I to the throne, the school was transformed into a four-class gymnasium. Since that time, I. P. Mendeleev, the father of a famous chemist, began working at the gymnasium.

In 1836, the gymnasium became a seventh-grade school. In the same year, after graduating from St. Petersburg University and already being the author of the famous fairy tale “The Hunchback Horse”, P. P. Yershov returned to Tobolsk with his mother and began teaching at the gymnasium.

The biographies of many other famous people of Tobolsk are associated with the Tobolsk gymnasium. In studied Mendeleev (1841-1849), Decembrist G. S. Batenkov, ally N.And. Nekrasov and Saltykov-Shchedrin publicist G. Z. Yeliseyev, one of the first populists Tobolsk people Syromyatnikov, A. A., children of the exiled Decembrists (school mate schoolboy Mendeleev was the son of the Decembrist Annenkov Vladimir).

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