Abstract

It is investigated the life and the pedagogical activity of Ukrainian historian, public and educational worker Mykola Volodymyrovych Storozhenko (1862-1942) in a whole, and the period of his directorship in 1909-1919 in the First Kyev’s gymnasium It is noted that as a historian Мykola Storozhenko was formed in the intellectual and cultural environment of the Kyiv documentary school of Volodymyr Antonovych, under whose direction he was successfully engaged in researching of the history of Ukraine; he was very familiar with many representatives of the Ukrainian scientific and public communities in the end of the XIX – at the beginning of the XX centuries; he was active in the Ukrainian community life as a member of the Kyiv Archaeographic Commission and the Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler, as a member of journals «Kievan antiquity», «Historical Journal», «Russian Thought», a district activist in the Piryatinschina; he had a family origin from the old petty officers family, well-known since the XVII century. It is proved that the long-term Mykola Storozhenko educational and administrative activities contributed to the fact that he perfectly from the inside knew the system of existence and financing of the secondary education, the government policy of the Ministry of public education as an employee and the administrator, the urgent needs of gymnasiums and pedagogues. It is proved that Mykola Storozhenko occupies a worthy place among the cultural and educational figures of the end of the XIX – at the beginning of the XX centuries in Kyiv, whose activities influenced on the formation and education of Kyiv social and cultural environment, who generated a tradition of education and culture of the city, and were involved in the creation of an integrated socio-cultural portrait of pedagogues of Kyiv’s gymnasium of their time.