To the Issue of the Pedagogical Periodical Press of the Moscow Educational District (1804–1917)

The article considers the pedagogical periodical press on the territory of the Moscow Educational District in the period of 1804-1917.The source base of our research is represented by various reference books, as well as directly by prerevolutionary pedagogical journals.Methodologically, the work is based on the method of content analysis, which is conditioned by the search among the array of periodicals of the Russian Empire for pedagogical journals that were published only on the territory of the Moscow Educational District.A systematic method was also used in the work, thanks to which we examined periodical printing in its system (journal, time of publication, frequency/number of issues issued, information about the publisher and editor, notes).In turn, the retrospective method made it possible to consider the evolution of the periodical press on the territory of the Moscow Educational District in its historical sequence.The authors conclude that 44 pedagogical periodicals were published on the territory of the Moscow Educational District in the period from 1804 to 1917 (41 in Moscow, 2 in Yaroslavl and 1 in Nizhny Novgorod).The oldest of these publications was the Moscow journal "Patriot".Among the journals with a long period of publication were both state-owned ("Tsirkulyar po Moskovskomu uchebnomu okrugu") and private ("Estestvoznanie i geografiya") journals.A significant part of the journals with a long period of publication appeared at the end of the XIX century and existed until the revolution of 1917.Among the Moscow journals there were highly specialized publications that began to appear in Russia at the beginning of the XX century.Among such publications are the journals "Ekskursionnyi vestnik", "Matematicheskii vestnik", "Novosti detskoi literatury", "Estestvoznanie i naglyadnoe obuchenie" and others.All this in general clearly demonstrates that an active pedagogical life existed and developed on the territory of the Moscow Educational District in the pre-revolutionary period.