Saint Peter's School
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The Petri School (also St. Peter's school; Петришуле Russian ) is a traditional, founded in 1709, secondary school in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
It is characterized today by a particularly intensive German lessons. Until the beginning of the First World War, the language of instruction was German, but was then changed due to the then political tension between Germany and Russia in Russian, but the German language remained still one of the priorities of the school. The Petri school is still a training facility by numerous prominent people.
History
The Petri school was founded in 1709 on the initiative of Peter the Great. It was attended in particular by German Balts and others living in Russia German and soon became one of the most prestigious schools in Saint Petersburg. The interim teachers included, among others, the physicist Emil Lenz, the linguist Nikolai Gretsch and the mathematician Nikolai Braschman. In 1912, St. Peter's school had about 1,600 students, of which about 25 % Russians.
St. Peter's School was financed by then in part by the German - Lutheran congregation of the nearby St. Peter's Church. With the beginning of World War II, the tension between Germany and Russia increased, the language of instruction of the school was consequently converted forcibly from German to Russian. Although the German language still remained one of the focal points of the Petri school, many teachers and students had to leave but by switching the school.
During the time of the Soviet Union, the Petri school was renamed, but received in 1996 its historical name back. It has about 500 students today.
Famous former students
- Nikolai Benois, Architect
- Leonid Breitfuß, marine biologist and polar explorer
- Alexander Brückner, historian
- Otto von Böhtlingk, Indologist
- Daniil Kharms, writer
- Alexander Galich, philosopher and logician
- Mikhail Gromov, mathematicians
- Wilhelm Junker, explorer of Africa
- Mikhail Kosakow, actor and director
- Peter Lesgaft, Anatomist
- Lev Losev, poet and literary critic
- Juri Lotman, literary critic and semiotician
- Gregory of Helmersen, geologist and explorer
- Carl Friedrich Keil, theologian
- Elisabeth Kulmann, poet
- Friedrich Martens From Hold, lawyer and diplomat
- Nikolai Menschutkin, chemists
- Maximilian of Messmacher, Architect
- Modest Mussorgsky, composer
- Theodor Pleske, zoologist
- Carlo Rossi, Architect
- Lou Andreas - Salomé, writer
- Gennadi Schatkow, Boxer
- Friedrich Theodor Schubert, officer and surveyor
- Viktor Schröter, Builder
- Konstantin Thon, Architect
- Pawel Chichagov, Admiral