"The regular academy will be established...". Educational projects in the first half of the XVIII century

The collection of articles and archival materials" regular academy will be established ... opens up new parties to the formation of a system of education in Russia in the first half of the XVIII century - one of the key processes in the history of Petrovskoye modernization. Published in the book previously unknown or inflicted sources of various origin - personal, depriving, legislative contains projects for creating or reforming educational institutions, educational and methodological programs offered by academicians, officials, teachers and even adventurers. Based on these sources, the authors of the articles included in the collection show that the formation of the Western Sample School in Russia in Petrovskaya and the afternoon era was not so many states as administrative entrepreneurs - "search engines" used government resources to achieve their own goals