Директор Белгородского учительского института Дьяконов Петр Александрович – педагог, историк и общественный деятель Курской, Тамбовской и Харьковской губерний

Abstract

Reconstruction of the biography is a form of historical analysis. Based on the tools of the historical and biographical method, an attempt is made to restore the biography of the historian, teacher, public figure and director of the Belgorod Teachers Institute from 1913 to 1918 – Petr Alexandrovich Dyakonov (1857 – after 1918). Based on the results of research work with published statistical and reference-legal and unpublished historical sources from the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, State Archive of the Belgorod Region, scientific biography and main stages of professional development of P.A. Dyakonov are reconstructed. Data are restored and his activity in educational and public institutions is analyzed: Tambov Governorate, work in a position of the ruler of Affairs of the Tambov Scientific Archive Commission, Volchansk Teacher Seminary of the Kharkiv Governorate, Directorate of Public Schools of the Don Army Region and Tambov Governorate and Belgorod Teacher Institute of the Kursk Governorate is considered in detail. We analyze the activity of the Belgorod Teachers Institute in the pre-revolutionary years. The list of teachers of the Teachers Institute in Belgorod for 1916 is restored. According to the re-sults of research activities with the funds of the Belgorod State Museum of Local History, a por-trait image of P.A. Dyakonov is identified.