TEACHING, LOCAL HISTORY AND ARCHIVAL ACTIVITIES OF THE HISTORIAN V.O. EINGORN
Among the teachers of the late 19th century, who began their activities in Nizhny Novgorod, the name of V.O. Eingorn, widely known as a researcher of history of Little Russia, whose works were highly appreciated by contemporaries, is unjustly forgotten. He worked extensively in the archives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev, but his main professional activity, quite unexpectedly, was teaching and administrative work in secondary schools: the Nizhny Novgorod Noble Institute, a number of Moscow gymnasiums and the 2nd Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium. After the events of 1917, he worked in secondary schools of Nizhny Novgorod. V.O. Eingorn worked in the field of education for over 40 years. This period is poorly studied, and his historical and pedagogical publications, which allow us to rank him among the connoisseurs of the history of pedagogy and of famous educational institutions in Russia, remain unknown.The main areas of his pedagogical and administrative activities are revealed using a limited number of published and archival sources (3 letters addressed to S.F. Platonov and the latter's feedback on the «pedagogical experience» ofV.O. Eingorn). His work in the Nizhny Novgorod provincial academic archival commission, his participation in the archival construction in the Nizhny Novgorod province and in the creation of an archive in the V.I. Lenin State Library are described.