Fate made him only one gift - introduced him to a kind teacher. Thanks to the mentor were stunning imagination heights that the student was able to conquer.
Our hero happened to be born in times that few historians consider favorable. After the brilliant achievements of the empire of Alexander I, the country slowly slowed down the pace of progress. It became increasingly difficult for commoners to make a career. Such difficult circumstances did not prevent the genius from impressing compatriots with his intellect and making a contribution to the future of Russian education.
Childhood
In the small village of Novo-Ilmensky Bush, Simbirsk province, the Mironov family lived. Its head Miron was considered one of the poorest people in the village. He earned a living for himself and his wife with hard peasant labor. When the couple had a baby in November 1861, the villagers only shook their heads - how now these unfortunate people will survive. The father was happy with the son who was named Paul.
Parental joy. Artist Karl Lemoh
Indeed, the boy became a joy to his parents. His curiosity surprised adults. Miron admired his offspring and vowed that he would send the child to school. In 1871, the famous enlightener Ivan Yakovlev stopped in the village. He was traveling from Kazan, where he studied at the university, his native Simbirsk. They asked him to talk with Pavlik. The adult man was surprised at the sharpness of the baby and took it with him.
Study
Dirty, sick scab, illiterate Pasha got into a completely new world for himself. Now he was a student of the Simbirsk Chuvash school, which was founded by Ivan Yakovlev. The benefactor himself took the child to the bathhouse and treated him. Despite all the efforts of the benefactor, the student appeared before teachers not in the best possible way. Squeamishness vanished from their faces as soon as they began to ask the novice questions. Soon the boy became an excellent student, and his successes in mathematics made it possible to claim that he was brilliant.
Ivan Yakovlev
In his free hours, the boy mastered musical notation and made a violin. Soon he pleased everyone with his original compositions. In addition to the musical creativity of the student, biology was of interest. He began to collect herbarium and entomological collection. Over the years, Paul did not give up his hobby, a children's hobby became the basis for creating an exposition of a museum of natural history.
Student and mentor
Graduation for our hero was a joyful event. Pavel Mironov, as one of the best students, in 1879 was sent to continue to master science in the central school of Simbirsk. He visited a guy and an educational institution, which gave him a ticket to life. Here he taught arithmetic in elementary grades. They entrusted him with this important task even before the official presentation of the diploma. The fame of a young talented teacher scattered quickly. Soon Pasha received a series of invitations to rural schools of Buinsky district.
Having received a full secondary education in 1881, the young man could continue to teach, but he wanted to get more knowledge. For a long time, the graduate could not make a decision: to remain in the profession that he had already mastered, or to choose the faculty of biology, which had become his passion. Our hero entered the Orenburg Teacher Institute. He graduated with a gold medal in 1884. During the year, the graduate worked as a mathematics teacher at the Orenburg three-year school. He soon moved to Ufa. There were two places for our hero: in a district school he taught children math and singing, and in a female gymnasium he taught a pedagogical course, where he met his future wife, teacher Olga Dumnova.
Honored Awards
The work of Pavel Mironov in Ufa attracted the attention of the leadership of educational institutions. In 1892, he was awarded the rank of college assessor, after 4 years he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the III degree. The only thing that the talented teacher was constantly denied was his requests to transfer him to Simbirsk and allow him to work in the Chuvash school. History has preserved the correspondence of Mironov with Yakovlev. The former student respected his mentor with great respect, and often turned to him for advice.
Pavel Mironov
A native of the peasant environment led the school in which he taught. In 1901, he achieved his conversion from two-year to three-year. After 2 years, another class was added. The frantic director handed over to his students not only knowledge in the field of exact sciences, but also taught music, gymnastics, history and headed the library. Schoolchildren got acquainted with mathematics from the textbooks written by him. Pavel Mironovich had very little time for personal life and hobbies.
