Buckle student educational institutions Department Maria Feodorovna

The Russian Empire, 1910s Brass. Excellent collectible condition, clear terrain. Intended to wear the students of the Gatchina Orphan Institute Junior school. The only negative is the lost of the bracket attaching to a belt. The guarantee of authenticity. It is extremely rare.

An Institute is a training school in Gatchina, which operated until 1917. Was founded in 1803 on the initiative of Empress Maria Fedorovna as a Rural orphanage in a former Barnyard. It took children from the age of 7, can learn up to 600 children of both sexes. They were given basic knowledge and craft skills. This house was like a preparatory Department of the St. Petersburg educational house, from which sposobnaya students were enrolled in institutions of higher education, and girl — governesses in the family. In 1823, the educational building was expanded, a new building was constructed by the architect D. I. Quadri.
In 1834, the Educational building was converted into eight-grade gymnasium for orphans, and in 1837 — in the Gatchina Orphan Institute. It only took in orphans of noble families with 10-12 years, trained home teachers. In 1848 he received legal direction, preparing clerical officers.
In 1855 the Gatchina orphan Institute Nikolaev is named in memory of the founder, Emperor Nicholas I. Since 1878 in 4 Junior high Gatchina Institute introduced a course of progimnazii of the Ministry of education and three senior training course is in accordance with the three senior classes of military schools. Being in the Department of institutions of Empress Maria, the Gatchina Institute had inviolable capital 4803770 RUB In 1848, when the Gatchina Institute for children of employees of persons therein established women's Board, who in 1867 transformed into a women's gymnasium.
Currently in the building of an Institute is a boarding school.