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Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University
Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University () was a university in Moscow that was founded in 1908 with funds from the gold mining philanthropist Alfons Shanyavsky. The university was nationalized in 1918 after the Russian revolution and merged into the Russian State University for the Humanities The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH; ), is a university in Moscow, Russia with over 25,000 students. It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Urban University of the People (est. 1908) and the Moscow Sta .... The university was officially founded on October 2, 1908 after many years of bureaucratic wrangling between Lidia, the wife of deceased mining magnate A. L. Shanyavsky and the city of Moscow. The aim of the university was to provide education in all branches of knowledge to any person. The city was governed by a board of trustees including half appointed by the City Duma. In the first semester 400 students joined and by 1912 there were 360 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfons Shanyavsky
Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky (; 21 February 1837 – 20 November 1905) was a Russian officer of Polish noble origins who became a gold mining business owner and later philanthropist who helped establish the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University, Moscow City People's University which ran from 1908 to 1920 when it was merged into the Russian State University for the Humanities. Biography Shanyavsky was born in the of Polish nobility who came from the town of Shanyavy. Archbishop Joseph Shanyavsky had taken part in the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising. At the age of nine, Alfons was sent to Russia as part of a rule for every Polish family to send a boy into the Imperial Russian Army. After graduating from a Cadet Corps (Russia), cadet corps school in Tula, Russia, Tula he went to the Oryol Cadet Corps and then to the Konstantinovsky Military School in Saint Petersburg. Graduating with honors he joined the Life Guards Jager Regiment (Russia), Jaeger regiment and then went to the Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
