"Teacher in the best sense of the word": life and fate of Associate Professor Konstantin Ivanovich Todorsky
The article is devoted to the history of life and activity of the associate professor of the Crimean State Pedagogical Institute K. I. Todorsky. On a broad base of archival sources, it reveals the main stages in the life course of a teacher and a scientist. Using the detected metric evidence, the date of birth is specified. Based on the materials of the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, the period of Konstantin Ivanovich Todorsky's studies at the History and Philology Faculty of St. Petersburg University is being restored. The article for the first time publishes photographs and documents related to the period of study. Separate attention in the work deserves a period of work of the young teacher K. I. Todorsky in the Simferopol Men's State Gymnasium and other secondary schools in Simferopol. Characterizing the initial stage of the work of K. I. Todorsky in the Crimean State Pedagogical Institute, his contribution to solving the problems of organizing the pedagogical life of the Crimea, as well as in the formation and development of discipline in the higher educational institution of the peninsula, «the methodology of history». The social activity of K. I. Todorsky, which, according to time, was closely connected with ideological concepts actively promoted by the highest Soviet leadership. The work covers the period of activity in the evacuation, as well as in the postwar years, which became for K. I. Todorsky the time of recognition of his pedagogical merit. The article describes the scientific research of associate professor K. I. Todorsky.