Gimnaziya

Reading notes

• The Man in a Case §2 gymnasium

  The classical secondary school of Imperial Russia, with a heavy Greek-and-Latin curriculum -- both Belikov and Burkin teach at one.

• The Lady with the Little Dog §6 the gymnasium

  The classical secondary school of Imperial Russia; Gurov's two sons are pupils there, part of the settled domestic life he keeps escaping.

• Ionych §30 a gymnasium

  The classical secondary school young Russians of the period would normally attend; Vera Iosifovna had her daughter taught privately at home instead, out of fear of 'bad influences.'

• Who Is to Blame? §1 gymnasium

  The gimnaziya was Imperial Russia's classical secondary school, built around an intensive Latin-and-Greek curriculum aimed at university entrance; Pyotr Demyanych's post there as Latin master, and the household's mousetrap-and-textbook plot, both flow from this institution's central place in Russian boys' education.

• My Ranks and Titles §6 school

  The gimnaziya, the classical secondary school with a graded class system (fourth class down to first); the narrator inflates ordinary school grades into the language of civil-service classes.

• At the Wolf-Baiting §12 schoolboy in an enormous hood

  A gymnasium (secondary-school) pupil, identifiable by his uniform cap and hood; Russian gimnaziya students wore distinctive caps that marked them out in any public crowd.

• On the Eve of the Fast §6 gymnasium boy

  Styopa is a second-year (second-class) pupil at a gimnaziya, the classical secondary school of Imperial Russia with its heavy Greek-and-Latin curriculum; his father's Latin recitation later in the story (section 38) is a relic of the same schooling, one generation on.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 1875. Taganrog. §4 gymnasium

  The Russian classical secondary school, heavy on Greek and Latin, that the Chekhov brothers and their Taganrog schoolmates attended before scattering to universities and academies in Moscow and Petersburg.

• To M. M. Chekhov, 4 November 1877. Taganrog. §4 finish the gymnasium

  The Russian classical secondary school, with a heavily Greek-and-Latin curriculum, that prepared boys for university; Chekhov was completing his final year at the Taganrog gimnaziya when he wrote this letter.

• To M. M. Chekhov, 9 June 1877. Taganrog. §5 seventh class

  The penultimate year of the classical gimnaziya curriculum; passing into it meant Chekhov had cleared that year's examinations.

• The Tutor §1 seventh-form gymnasium student

  The Russian classical gymnasium ran eight forms; the seventh form, one year from graduation, made a private tutor like Ziberov old enough (and cheap enough) to coach a younger boy in Latin and arithmetic.

• Fat and Thin §5 third class

  A year-grade in the Russian gimnaziya, the classical secondary school that prepared boys for university and the civil service.