Rajewski, Nikolai Ivanovich

(1835 - 1898), was educated in the 5 th High School and St. Petersburg University, Office of Science. Was a tutor of Natural Sciences in the 2 Cadet Corps, then a teacher in the 5 th school and the Smolny Institute. Rajewski was one of the first teachers of science, . been able to teach their students to make their own observations on botany and zoology and excite in them a strong interest in teaching: one of his pupils in the 5 th school became professor of botany п?.п?,
. Borodin, Batalin and YA.H. Gobi. Later Raevskii was an inspector in the school shelter Duke of Oldenburg, . Inspector 5-th school, . director of a secondary school in Pskov (where Raevskii arranged Botanical Garden), . Director of the Forest Institute, . Director of the Teachers' Institute in Orenburg, . Chief Inspector of Schools in Eastern Siberia, . director of the Moscow Teachers' Institute, . Director of public schools in St. Petersburg Province and, . Finally, . Director of the 2-th secondary school in St. Petersburg,
. Raevskii published the following books: "The key to the sciences" (translated from German), . "The gathering of plants and preparation of herbarium" (Saint-Petersburg, . 1874), . "Preparatory course of botany" (10 th ed., . St.Petersburg, . 1887), . "Tables for determining the families and genera of flora in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, . 1876), . Short geography textbook (2 nd ed,
. St. Petersburg, 1885), "Systematic Botany course (5 th ed. St. Petersburg, 1887), "Geography as a science and an academic subject" (St. Petersburg, 1887), "Physical Geography" (t. 1, Moscow, 1889; t. 2, St. Petersburg, 1892), "On the construction and drawing of cards" (St. Petersburg, 1886) and many articles in periodical publications.