@ARTICLE{26543118_26557402_2005, author = {Dmitry Tolstoy}, keywords = {history of education}, title = {From the Notes of D. A. Tolstoy, the Minister of Public Education, 1870–1880}, journal = {Educational Studies Moscow}, year = {2005}, month = {1}, number = {1}, pages = {323-330}, url = {https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2005--1/26557402.html}, publisher = {}, abstract = {Dmitry Andreevich Tolstoy (1823-1889) was a government figure and, according to his contemporaries, one of most interesting and paradoxical persons of his time. His tenure as minister of public education for almost a decade and a halfstill raises controversy. Since the mid 1860-s D.A. Tolstoy kept a «working journal» where he commented on the events and facts that were important to his professional activities. These notes can allow one not only to reconstruct his day-to-day work, but also to create the image of the «ministerial workings», of the ideology of a person who controlled all the threads and levers of educational power in his hands. We are publishing fragments from these notes.}, annote = {Dmitry Andreevich Tolstoy (1823-1889) was a government figure and, according to his contemporaries, one of most interesting and paradoxical persons of his time. His tenure as minister of public education for almost a decade and a halfstill raises controversy. Since the mid 1860-s D.A. Tolstoy kept a «working journal» where he commented on the events and facts that were important to his professional activities. These notes can allow one not only to reconstruct his day-to-day work, but also to create the image of the «ministerial workings», of the ideology of a person who controlled all the threads and levers of educational power in his hands. We are publishing fragments from these notes.} }