Fate gave him only one gift - introduced him to a kind teacher. The gratitude for the mentor was the stunning heights that the student was able to conquer.
Our hero happened to be born in times that few historians consider favorable. After the brilliant achievements of the empire of Alexander I, the country slowly slowed down the pace of progress. It became increasingly difficult for commoners to make a career. Such difficult circumstances did not prevent the genius from impressing his compatriots with his intellect and making a contribution to the future of Russian education.
Childhood
The Mironov family lived in the small village of Novo-Ilmensky Kust, Simbirsk province. Its head, Myron, was considered one of the poorest people in the village. He earned a living for himself and his wife through hard peasant labor. When the couple had a child in November 1861, the villagers only shook their heads - how these unfortunate people would now survive. The father was happy with his son, who was named Paul.
Indeed, the boy became a joy for his parents. His curiosity surprised adults. Myron admired his offspring and vowed that he would send the child to school. In 1871, the famous educator Ivan Yakovlev stayed in the village. He was traveling from Kazan, where he studied at the university, his native Simbirsk. He was asked to talk with Pavlik. An adult man was surprised at the baby's sharpness and took him with him.
Study
Dirty, sickly scabby, illiterate Pasha found himself in a completely new world for himself. Now he was a student of the Simbirsk Chuvash school, which was founded by Ivan Yakovlev. The benefactor himself took the child to the bathhouse and treated him. Despite all the efforts of the benefactor, the schoolchild did not appear in his best form before the teachers. Disgust vanished from their faces as soon as they started asking the newbie questions. Soon the boy became an excellent student, and his success in mathematics made it possible to claim that he was a genius.
In his free hours, the boy mastered musical notation and made a violin. Soon he delighted everyone with his original compositions. In addition to musical creativity, the student was interested in biology. He began to collect herbarium and entomological collection. Over the years, Pavel did not give up his hobby, the children's hobby became the basis for the creation of the exposition of the Museum of Natural History.
Student and mentor
The graduation ceremony for our hero was a joyful event. Pavel Mironov, as one of the best students, in 1879 was sent to continue to master the sciences at the central school of Simbirsk. The boy also attended an educational institution that gave him a start in life. Here he taught arithmetic in the lower grades. He was entrusted with this important task even before the official presentation of the diploma. The fame of the young talented teacher spread quickly. Soon, Pasha received a number of invitations to rural schools in Buinsky district.
Having received a complete secondary education in 1881, the young man could continue to teach, but he wanted to get more knowledge. The graduate could not make a decision for a long time: to stay in the profession that he had already mastered, or to choose the faculty of biology, which became his passion. Our hero entered the Orenburg Teachers' Institute. He graduated with a gold medal in 1884. For a year, the graduate worked as a mathematics teacher at the Orenburg three-year school. He soon moved to Ufa. There for our hero there were two places: in the district school he taught children mathematics and singing, and in the women's gymnasium he read a course in pedagogy, where he met his future wife, teacher Olga Dumnova.
Honored awards
Pavel Mironov's work in Ufa attracted the attention of the management of educational institutions. In 1892 he was awarded the rank of collegiate assessor, 4 years later he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, III degree. The only thing that the talented teacher was constantly denied was his requests to transfer him to Simbirsk and allow him to work in the Chuvash school. History has preserved the correspondence between Mironov and Yakovlev. The former student treated his mentor with great respect and often turned to him for advice.
A native of a peasant environment, he headed the school in which he taught. In 1901, he succeeded in transforming it from a two-year to a three-year one. Two years later, another class was added. The frantic director passed on to his wards not only knowledge in the field of exact sciences, but also taught music, gymnastics, history and was in charge of the library. Schoolchildren got acquainted with mathematics from textbooks written by him. Pavel Mironovich had very little time left for his personal life and hobbies.
Dreams Come True
Knowing with what enthusiasm Mironov got down to business, in 1907 he was appointed inspector of public schools in the Ural-Temirovsky district of the Ural region. Pavel understood that there was less and less time left to realize his dream of returning to Simbirsk. In 1912 he resigned and left for the city, where his biography as a teacher and educator began. After the revolution, he became the first to provide the new government with a clear plan for the development of public education in Chuvashia.
In the fall of 1918, a Chuvash teacher's seminary was opened in Simbirsk. It was led by Pavel Mironov. Soon, this educational institution became a technical school, whose graduates became famous in their native land and earned respect in the country of the Soviets. In September 1921 they grieved - their wise mentor passed away.
