
Modern view of the school building.

Hall of the School of Jursiprudence, a 1840 painting by Sergey Zaryanko.
The
Imperial School of Jurisprudence (Russian: Императорское училище правоведения) was, along with the
Page Corps, the most prestigious school for noble boys in
Saint Petersburg, the capital of the
Russian Empire.
The school for would-be imperial administrators was founded by Duke George of Oldenburg in 1835. The classes were accommodated in six buildings along the
Fontanka Quay. The premises were extensively renovated in 1893-95 and 1909-10, when the main building acquired its distinctive cupola. After the
October Revolution of 1917, the school was disbanded, but its memory survives in the
nursery rhyme about
Chizhik-Pyzhik.
Among the instructors were the leading lawyers of Imperial Russia, such as
Anatoly Koni and
Włodzimierz Spasowicz. Boys studied in the school for six or seven years.
The graduates of the School of Jurisprudence include
Ivan Aksakov,
Aleksey Apukhtin,
Konstantin Pobedonostsev,
Vladimir Stasov,
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov,
Konstantin Konstantinovich Pahlen,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his younger brother
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky.