HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF MODERNIZATION IN RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN EDUCATION
On June 16-17, 2014 St.Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Training hosted a 30 <sup>th</sup> anniversary session of Research Council of the Russian Academy of Education on History of Education and Pedagogy, which was devoted to modernization processes in Russian and foreign education of the 18 <sup>th </sup>- early 19 <sup>th</sup> centuries.