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• Comment: I am in agreement with the previous reviewer’s assessment. Hitro talk 17:08, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Maybe a better idea would be to translate the article about the school, ru:Николаевское кавалерийское училище, to English. (d:Q3577830) Sam Sailor 03:35, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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Nikolaevskoe Cavalry School

The Nikolaevskoye Cavalry School was a privileged military school of the Russian Empire that existed in Saint Petersburg from 1823 to 1917. The school's graduates included many prominent military and civilian figures of Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The idea of ​​creating a permanent warrant officer school, unlike those that operated periodically at headquarters, came from Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich. From 1818, he was the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Guards Infantry Division. In the winter of 1821-1822, the Guards Corps moved from St. Petersburg to the Vilnius Governorate and, after major maneuvers, was left in winter quarters in Vilno. 25-year-old Nikolai Pavlovich was also there. He noticed that young people who entered the Guards as warrant officers, even with a good home education, poorly learned military discipline. The warrant officers of the Life Guards Izmailovsky and Jaeger Regiments were gathered in a brigade quarters, where they were taught military education. Nikolai Pavlovich considered the results to be good and, upon returning to St. Petersburg, presented Tsar Alexander I with a project for a permanent School of Guards Ensigns.

On May 9, 1823, by order of Tsar Alexander I, the School of Guards Ensigns was founded in St. Petersburg in the barracks of the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment (Fontanka Embankment, 120) to train young noblemen who entered the guards from universities or private boarding schools and did not have military training. Its staff included a commander, 1 class inspector, 8 senior officers of the rank of at least lieutenant, and 120 students. Young men from noble families, no younger than 17 years old, could enter the school. Those who completed the two-year course were promoted to officers and released into the regiments of the Guards cavalry. The Tsar also determined that he would be under the chief supervision of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich. Colonel of the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment P. P. Godein was appointed commander of the school.

On August 27, 1823, classes began at the school. The number of students admitted was significantly less than planned. On January 1, 1824, there were 60 students. During the whole of 1824, 9 people were admitted, and 29 in 1825. On January 1, 1826, there were 64 students.

For the first two years, admission was possible in any month. In 1825, it was decided to hold entrance examinations annually in October.

Since August 1825, the school was located in the former palace of Count I. G. Chernyshev at the Blue Bridge near St. Isaac's Square (it was demolished in 1839, and the Mariinsky Palace was built on its site ).

In 1826, a squadron of guards cavalry cadets was formed at the school, and the educational institution was renamed the School of Guards Ensigns and Cavalry Cavalry Cadets.

In 1837, a special commission prepared a project to transform the school into a 4-grade school. The project was revised and approved by the Tsar on October 15, 1838. The transformed school was ceremonially opened on November 1, 1838, in the presence of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich. He also became the highest director and remained so until his death in 1849. Soon after the transformation, the school was transferred to another building, since Nicholas I decided to demolish the former palace of Count I. G. Chernyshev and build a new palace in its place as a gift to his daughter Maria Nikolaevna in honor of her engagement to Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg. The school was transferred to a three-story building on the corner of the 12th company of the Izmailovsky Regiment and Zagorodny Prospekt , where the Conductor School had previously been located (the current address is Lermontovsky Prospekt, 54). In front of the building was the parade ground of the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment, where a place was set aside for students to practice.

On January 9, 1843, by the highest order, the school was transferred to the jurisdiction of the chief of military educational institutions, who at that time was Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich.

In 1849, after the death of Mikhail Pavlovich, the chief of military educational institutions for several weeks became General of the Infantry, Karl Klingenberg, and from September 19, 1849, the 31-year-old Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich .

On March 24, 1859, the school was renamed the Nikolaevskoe School of Guards Cadets. Due to the abolition of the ensign rank in the Russian army, it disappeared from the name, and was named Nikolaevskoe in memory of the founder, Tsar Nicholas I, who died in 1855. Students received the emperor's monogram on their shoulder straps.

In 1864, the School was transformed into the Nikolaevskoe Cavalry School, which from 1839 until the end of its existence was located in the building at 54 Lermontovsky (Novo-Petergofsky) Prospect .

In 1890, a Cossack hundred was formed at the school - the so-called Tsar's Hundred .

In 1907, the head of the school, Major General L. V. De-Witt, came up with the initiative to erect a monument to M. Yu. Lermontov , who was a graduate of the school, in St. Petersburg on Novo-Petergofsky Prospekt in front of the school building . The ceremony of laying the foundation of the monument took place on October 1, 1913 .

Under Alexander Kerensky, the school's leadership deliberately dragged out time to preform a required oath to the Provisional Government. The oath was never accepted. In order not to give up their standard according to the order of the Provisional Government, two cadets and the replacement officer Schmidt stole it and took it to Kyiv, after which they informed the chief. In October 1917, the school was disbanded.