Land gentry cadet corps: discovery, organization and activities
The article deals with the formation and activities of the Ground Gentry Cadet Corps, opened in 1731 in St. Petersburg. The organization of the educational process, the studied disciplines, the organization of leisure activities of students are analyzed. It is noted that the basic principles that laid the foundation for the organization of the educational process in the Land Corps (the humanistic nature of education, the secular nature of education while preserving spiritual traditions) corresponded to the ideas of educational ideology during the reign of Catherine II, but they are still relevant today.