Red School 1906
The Red School 1906
Pronskaya women’s Hospital named after V.N. von Derweese, Progymnasium.
Originally Pavel Pavlovich von Derweese (since 1917. Lugovoy) opened a women’s gymnasium in 1904 in an ordinary wooden house, the land for the school was allocated by the Pronskaya Duma, but the construction and further provision were carried out at the expense of a nobleman. The school taught up to 60 female students in 4 classes. The gymnasium is named after his mother Vera Nikolaevna (not to be confused with his sister Varvara Pavlovna, after whom the women’s gymnasium in Moscow is also named)
In December 1905, the school burned down, no one was injured, but the building was almost destroyed, and construction began on a new, three-story brick gymnasium. By that time, the building would become the most prominent in the entire city (except perhaps countless churches).
By 1907*, the new building had already begun teaching seven classes and 170 gymnasium students. Teachers also live in the school’s premises, and with funds from the Dervise foundation, among other things, a "Society for Helping Underprivileged Students" was formed – the organization could pay for school tuition, equipment, medical care, housing, and even funded the further education of graduates.
In the following years, the Red School will have two impressive buildings with a Theater, then a Soviet conversion into a secondary school, a military hospital, a fire, another large-scale reconstruction with restoration (up to 4 floors), and then at the turn of the century, closure and senseless demolition. Only a fragment of the fence will remain.
Staff : 20
Teachers : 15
Students: 200
Cost:
1276: Workdays | 211 : Concrete
821 : Bricks | 161 : Gravel
37t: Boards | 10t : Steel
*The exact date of the reopening has not yet been established.
