Pre-revolutionary period

Having visited the Central State Historical Archives, we found the first mention of the building on the territory of which our school. A very interesting fact, which says that in 1863, that is, almost 160 years ago, State Councilor Andrei Petrovich Lei applied to the board of the St. Petersburg Credit Society with a request to issue him a loan secured by a house on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, Yekateringofsky and Voznesensky Prospekt ... The following is written in historical documents: "the foundation of the house is made of a rubble slab on lime with sand on wooden planks with earth and stone and carpentry work. The walls are brick, windows with double bindings, glass. Ceilings with beams, grease, filing. There are front and back stairs. ". A year later, in 1864, the house was sold on the basis of a resolution of the St. Petersburg City Credit Society for non-payment of the next debt on the list of sales. The highest price at the auction was given by the merchant Afanasy Petrovich Yakovlev. Paid in the amount of 33540 rubles, pledging to pay the rest of the amount no later than fifteen days. Examining archival documents, we found several more references to this building, dated 1904 and 1910: a petition to His Excellency the Mayor to open an ink workshop and furnished rooms in this house. Unfortunately, we failed to scan these documents. But we took a photographic film of this building.

Leafing through the pages of volumes of pre-revolutionary history, covered with a thin ink pen, you begin to realize how interesting and exciting it is to learn such facts of the past years.
By the way, Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue, on which School No. 241 is located, was formerly called Yekateringofsky Avenue. On August 20, 1739, the beginning of the road that led to the Summer Palace of Catherine the First - Yekateringof - was named Yekateringofskaya Street. The name lasted until 1846. In parallel, the name Yekateringofskaya perspective was used, then Yekateringofsky prospect until 1939. In 1939, the passage was renamed into Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue in honor of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky Korsakov due to the fact that the St. Petersburg Conservatory is located nearby, of which Rimsky-Korsakov was a professor.
There are many historical sites in St. Petersburg. Touching upon the pre-revolutionary period, we wanted to pay attention to one of these monuments stories - the Church of the Ascension of the Lord. Running a little ahead, let's say that not far from the place where this church was located, after many years, or rather, after 208 years (just think about this phrase!) our school will be built.

The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is a lost Orthodox church. Located in St. Petersburg on Voznesensky Prospect. It was a beautiful white church with a large dome and a slender bell tower. A very interesting architectural monument of the eighteenth century.
    When Peter I was the Russian emperor, a camp church was erected on the bank of the Glukha River in the so-called "perevedensky" (from "translators", ie, settlers) settlements. It was intended for the employees of the Admiralty. In 1728, according to the project of the architect I.K. Korobov, a wooden church was erected next to the marching church. Inside it was upholstered with canvas. Admiralty artists painted images and interiors. On March 20, 1729, this temple was consecrated by Bishop Raphael of Pskov. A year later, a spire appeared on the building, designed by I.I. Slyadnev.
   Among the parishioners in 1751, an idea arose to build a three-aisled stone church, but only four years later it was possible to lay it according to the project of the architect A.F. Vista. For 150 years, the church was being completed, was rebuilt, a bell tower was built, then a chapel. The domes were raised, the walls were decorated with new painting. We can say that the last changes in the architecture of the building were made in 1898, and in 1903 a clock was mounted on the bell tower. Of the shrines in the temple, there was a seventeenth-century silver cross with relics embedded in it. Since 1870, the Society for the Care of the Poor operated at the church, which contained a women's almshouse, an orphanage-school and courses in church singing in its own house.
   In 1923 the church received the status of a cathedral. Now the former name of the avenue has been restored, but the cathedral will probably never be restored. Years later, on the territory where the Church of the Ascension of the Lord was located, designed by the architect Alexander Lvovich Lishnevsky construction of a new school began. This was the current school number 256. We would like to inform you of a very interesting fact that according to the project of the same genius, the walls of our native school number 241 have also grown not far from this place.

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Pre-war period