Alfons Shanyavsky and his project of Moscow City People's University
The article is devoted to the history of Moscow City People's University organization and its founder A.L. Shanyavsky. He had a plan to create a university accessible to the general public, to organize its work on democratic principles, to attract the most talented scientists of the time to teach there. The process of opening the university was delayed for several years due to various bureaucratic obstacles. Documents from various domestic archives helped to reconstruct the history of the struggle for the people's university from the moment of its design.