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 | | She immediately returned to the Noble Naval Cadet Corps its independent status, which it had briefly lost when Peter III merged it with the Noble Land Cadet Corps, and encouraged a fundamental revision of its teaching programme. |
 | | The reorganization of the Corps was completed in June 1764 and was largely the responsibility of its new director, Ivan Golenishchev-Kutuzov; its new teaching programme was in fact devised by Grigorii Andreevich Poletika, the inspector of classes, and Nikolai Gavrilovich Kurganov, teacher of mathematics and author to-be of the celebrated |
 | | He stresses how Robison immediately “assiduously applied himself to the acquiring a competent knowledge of the beautiful but difficult language of the Country” with such success that he impressed Count Chernyshev, the Vice-President of the Admiralty College (f. |
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