Konstantin Ushinsky

[5] Soon the family moved to Novgorod-Severskiy (present-day Novhorod-Siverskyi, Ukraine) where Konstantin's father was appointed an uezd judge.

[2] There was a lucky incident during his inspectorship: he discovered two sealed-off bookcases untouched for more than twenty years, which held the library of Pestalozzi's pupil Hugel.

[6] In 1859-1862 Ushinsky was the Inspector of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in Saint-Petersburg, In 1860-1862 he also worked as the Chief Editor of the Journal of the Department of Education (Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnago Obrazovaniya).

[3] Following a conflict with the Department of Education, Ushinsky was forced to go abroad to study school organizations in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and Italy (1862-1867).

[4] Ushinsky spent a lot of time and effort in debates over the most convenient ways to organize teachers' seminaries.

[3] Ushinsky's magnum opus was his theoretical work The Human As a Subject of Education: Pedagogical Anthropology in three volumes, started in 1867.