Vyacheslav Alekseyev

Vyacheslav Alekseyev (27th of September\9th of October 1871, Reval\Tallinn, Russian Empire – ?) – a teacher of history, Russian and Latin.

V. Alekseyev was born into a family of hereditary nobility. He graduated from the Department of Classical Philology at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Imperial Moscow University in 1897. From 1897 to 1899, he had been working as a teacher of history and Russian language at the Nizhny Novgorod Mariinsky Women’s Gymnasium. From 1899 to 1912, he had been teaching Old Church Slavonic and Russian at the Moscow Lyceum.

From 1912 to 1917, he had been serving as inspector at the Alexander Gymnasium in Riga, while also teaching ancient languages and logics.

From 1921 to 1925, he had been teaching at A. Korti’s Real Gymnasium in Riga. From 1925 to 1928, he had been a teacher at the secondary school of the Mazsalaca School Society. From 1928 to 1940, he had been teaching Latin at the 2nd (Latvian) State Gymnasium. In the 1932/33 academic year, he also taught at the State Technical School.

In 1923, he passed the Latvian language proficiency examination at the Russian Department of the Ministry of Education.

In 1932, the Certification Commission recognized him as a fully qualified teacher of the Russian language.

In 1930, V. Alekseyev was awarded the Order of the Three Stars, 5th Class.

The last known information about V. Alekseyev indicates that in 1943 he was teaching Latin at the 2nd State Gymnasium.

He was married to Elizaveta Goryunenko-Seleznyova, daughter of actors of the Imperial Theaters. Daughters: Lidiya (1896) and Nina (1898).

Tatyana Feigmane

Sources of information:

ЛГИА, ф. 1632, оп. 1, д. 422.

ЛГИА, ф. 1303, оп. 2, д. 278.

Aina Ruta Britāne, Agita Veidemane. ĀĢENSKALNA ĢIMNĀZIJA. Rīgas 5.vidusskola. 2. Rīgas Valsts ģimnāzija. – Rīga: Jumava, 2006.