Looking For A Marriage Record

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In my opinion, there's no particular evidence on what grade he taught. I wrote above that it refered to class system of the Table of ranks.
And posted similar examples from yandex archives metrical books.
In my opinion also it was very unlikely that they even mentioned such details as what grade a teacher did in church records.
It was completely irrelevant for such documents, unlike the ranks and offices which they usually mentioned.

As for what grade he had and what subjects he taught, it can be found only in his service list (формулярный список) or the memorial book (памятная книжка) or address calendar (directory) (адрес-календарь) of Kovno governorate for the 1880s .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamyatnaya_Knizhka

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okay I see. I won't do any further research on him at this time. It would have been good to have an idea of the age of the students, this way I could have compared with the education system in France to have an equivalent.

Back to the "class" issue.
Having scanned the above-mentioned memorial book of Kovno governorate, I've noticed that some teachers and officials are all given by this ''class'' title (sostoit v 8-m klasse), etc.), while others are mentioned with actual ranks according to the table of ranks (kollezhskiy asessor). Among those with real ranks are a provincial secretary (gubernskiy sekretar) which is a lower rank (12th, as I remember). While there's someone who's mentioned as being of the 10th class, which can have nothing to do with the number of grades, as there're never been more than 8 in the Russian gymnasiums.

Well, why is such a difference?

Here's a Moscow church record of 1850

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In the house of Mrs Nesterova, of the 8th class, Moscow university's adjutant-professor Fedor Ivanov Buslaev...

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He's turned out to be a famous scholar. Here's his Wiki page

So, hardly a university had 8 classes.


Well, it's still to research for me. But my wild guess is it could be due to actually having a rank patent or not. Since teaching and serving at gynmasiums was considered equivalent to civil service, they had to be graded according to the system of the table of ranks. Yet, being straight from a university, they could have not yet obtained a proper patent for a rank. Plus, it could be that their teaching class was based not on a patent itself but on their education, the type of institution they taught at and what they taught and at which grade. Just wild guessing...

Below are examples from Astrahan archives.
Alexander Mikhailov Petrovsky, a teacher of Astrahan gymnasium.
Here his wife's serf's marriage record of 1836. It mentions him as a ''official of the 9th class serving as a senior teacher at Astrahan gymnasium''

But here in his own marriage of 1833 he's mentioned as simply ''a senior teacher of the 9th class''

Here

"Речи и отчет, читаемые на торжественном собрании Московского императорского университета 12 января 1886 года"
The rank of ''actual students''
the students of History and linguistics department
page 66
Ignaty Engel, it says that he finished Mogilev gymnasium.

Here's the memorial book of Kiev governorate for 1903
https://viewer.rusneb.ru/ru/00...heme=white

Ignaty Evgenyevich is mentioned as a teacher of the 3rd Kiev male gynmasium.
it says he had the rabk of collegiate councillor (kollezhskiy sovetnik), which was the 6th class.
So, around 1899-1900 he received the rank of nadvorniy sovetnik, and between 1900 and 1903 he was elevated to kollezhskiy sovetnik, class 6th.
And taught in Kiev.
So, now, it's definate, that by 1900 he had the personal nobility.

And it also says his address - Bolshaya Kudryavskaya, 31 (in Kiev)
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The memorial book of 1901, Kiev governorate
The 3rd Kiev male gymnasium

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teacher of the Russian language, literature and logics, collegiate coincillor, I.E. Engel, Kadetsky avenue (prospekt). 30

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https://viewer.rusneb.ru/ru/00...heme=white

The 1904 memorial book:
https://viewer.rusneb.ru/ru/00...heme=white

he's address was Georgyevskaya ploschad, 1

He's no longer mentioned at Kiev 3rd gymnasium in 1905

Here Engel's mentioned in Lithuanian eparchy digest (Vilno)

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Kovno. The all-Russian celebration of the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus...At 5 p.m. in the hall of the city duma there took place a formal assembly where in accordance with the prepared program, there occured the following... 4) The teacher of the male classic gymnasium, Mr Engel suggested to the assembly a thorough narration on the life and accomplishments of St Prince Vladimir.

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