A significant contribution to the development of agricultural education in Russia was made by the Agricultural School of the Moscow Society of Agriculture (MOSH), which emerged in 1822 and developed from the very beginning as an all-family school. According to our calculations, 730 people graduated from its full course from 1827 (the first issue) to 1860, and from 1861 to 1881 - another 564 graduates. Many of them were of peasant origin. But the documents of not all students survived, and only from the 1850s. It was possible to identify materials about 531 pets of the school, among them 121 came from peasants, including 39 serfs (before 1861). Serf graduates of the school received a graduation certificate without any real rights. After the extension in 1850 of the rights of graduates of the Agricultural School at the Gorygoretsky Institute to free graduates of the school (the titles of scientific administrators and honorary citizens, exemption from taxes and conscription), graduates of previous years who became freedmen began to apply to the school for such certificates. Here is one of these petitioners - Alexey Borisovich Demkin, who studied at the school from 1822 to 1827, a former serf Prince. Baryatinsky: in the" many-sided service " on the vast patrimony of the owner, he led page 168 "various occupations: clerk, land surveyor, architectural, teacher, agricultural and commission agent" from 1830 to 1853 with a three-year break, when, working in the Kursk patrimony, he managed an estate near Odessa in 28 thousand desyatins. "Here I arranged on an extensive scale correct farming; raised merino sheep breeding to 19 thousand heads, herds of horses and cattle; in the arid naked steppe I made artificial reservoirs and prevented the" lack " of watering; planted two large gardens and planted plantations of wild trees; built a school and, having put the whole economy in order, handed over the estate as comfortable as possible." Having received a free license after 1853 a ... Читать далее