VARENTSOV Victor Gavrilovich

(1825 - 1867).
He graduated from the course at the Kazan University with a degree of candidate of Russian literature, was a teacher in public schools, an inspector noble institute in Nizhny Novgorod, assistant professor in the department of Russian literature at the Kazan University. In Kazan Varentsov was "Collection of Russian spiritual poetry" (St. Petersburg, 1860), the victim, according to Professor Bobrov, from censorship, as many poems were written with the words beglopopovtsev and sectarians. The appearance of this collection was noted all visible magazines of the time. Later Varentsov was director of schools Samara, Director of Kerch and the district school inspector in the Odessa school district. He issued another second "Collection of songs Samara Region (St. Petersburg, 1862), for which as a collector of material has attracted teachers and students. He wrote in the Journal of the Ministry of Public Education "(1863). In January 1867, Mr.. Varentsov retired. He was an ardent supporter of kindergartens and promoted the opening of two educational congresses in Odessa, a lot of fussing about the opening of the Novorossiysk University. - Wed. SA. Vengerov, "critical-biographical dictionary ', t. IV; "Kindergarten", N 7 - 8, 1867, "Russian Antiquities", N 12, 1903, and N 2, 1904. Pav. Ros-in.