Shulgin Ivan Petrovich (1795-1869). In 1816, after graduating from the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Institute at the age of 19, he entered the Lyceum as a tutor and teacher. In 1833 he was approved as professor. I. P.Shulgin served at the Lyceum for 50 years.

I. P. Shulgin taught history disciplines not only at the Lyceum, but also at the Marine Corps, the Institute of Noble Maidens, the Page Corps and other educational institutions, as well as at Saint Petersburg University, where he was dean, and from 1836 to 1843, rector .Since 1839 - a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

His excellent knowledge of languages allowed him to follow the latest publications of European historians and geographers, due to which he compiled a large library, acquired later for the Historical and Philological Institute. He taught history to the sons of Nicholas I.

One of the graduates of the Lyceum, K. S. Veselovsky wrote about him: “He was remarkably smart, talented, and loving his subject and mastering it well, he knew how to liven up his presentation not with rhetorical phrases, but with talented grouping of facts. His lectures were among those that most engraved on the memory and enriched the concepts of the audience. "

I. P. Shulgin is author of numerous works on history and geography: "The Depiction of the Character and Content of Modern History" (1832), "On the Development of Monarchical Power in the States of Europe in the Middle Ages" (1836), etc.

Shulgin I. P. General Geography Course. Part 2. Asia, Africa, America and Australia. SPb., 1825.

Shulgin I. P. Depiction of the Nature and Content of Modern History. Book. 2. History of the last three centuries. SPb., 1838.