Ivan Betskoy

Ivan Betskoy

Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi or Betskoy (February 14 1704 – September 11 1795) was a Russian school reformer who served as Catherine II's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for thirty years (1764–94). Perhaps the crowning achievement of his long career was the establishment of Russia's first unified system of public education.

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