Background
Nikolay Chekhov was born on June 27, 1865, in the family of a doctor, he was a cousin of Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky. He died on November 8, 1947 (aged 82) Moscow City, Russia.
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Nikolay Vladimirovich Chekhov
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1888 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
Career
He worked in various educational institutions of the Tula, Yekaterinoslav, Tver provinces. Lecturer at the St. Petersburg Teachers' School (1906-1909). From 1909 he lived in Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Moscow Women's Pedagogical Courses (1910-1916).
Author of about 750 published works, including books published in Moscow: «Sputnik samoobrazovaniya» (1906), «Narodnoe obrazovanie v Rossii s 60-h godov XIX veka» (1912), «Vvedenie v izuchenie detskoj literatury» (1915). Children's drama«Snezhnaya koroleva» (1903), created by Chekhov based on the fairy tale by Kh.K. Andersen, was reprinted many times.
In 1916-1919 he was in charge of the provincial pedagogical courses in Voronezh, where he taught classes on the methodology of the Russian language, children's literature and children's reading. Participated in the work of the local Public People's University, created the society "Family and School". Vowel of the provincial zemstvo from Voronezh. Chairman of the Voronezh City Duma (1917). Editor (August - September 1917) and active employee of the newspaper "Voronezh Telegraph". After 1917 he served in the provincial department of public education. He took an active part in many social, cultural and educational events. Was recalled to Moscow to work in the People's Commissariat of Education.
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Membership
Member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Academy of Pedagogical Sciences from 1944.
