Составитель и издатель первых русских учебников Илья Копиевский (ок. 1651 – 1714): неизвестные страницы биографии

История и архивы Россия. 2022. № 3. С. 12–28.

Zaretsky Y.

The article presents new documents and materials about the life and activities of one of the educators of the era of Peter the Great – Ilya Fedorovich Kopievsky (c. 1661 - 1714). Both the appearance of the first printed textbooks in Russian and the beginning of the implementation of a large-scale project by Peter to publish secular educational literature are directly related to his personality. Meanwhile, the activities of Kopievsky as an author, translator, and publisher of textbooks have not been thoroughly studied so far. Many obscure circumstances are connected with it, giving researchers reason to express contradictory judgments. The article partially eliminates these uncertainties by referring to little-known materials and previously unpublished archival sources. A detailed examination of these materials and sources allows reconstructing the significant details of Kopievsky’s education of the Russian nobility during the period of the Great Embassy, ​​of his work on translations of educational literature, of its publication and distribution in Russia, of Kopievsky’s service in the Posolskii Prikaz in the last years of his life. The article also contains a sketch of Kopievsky’s biography, draws attention to the gaps remaining in it, and outlines the prospect of further archival research for filling them.

Keywords: учебная литература, китайские школьные учебники истории, Петр Первый, история образования в России, Копиевский