Excerpt from The Russian Ministry of Public Education at the World's Columbian Exposition The chief management of the Ministry of Public Instruction established at the same time With the other Ministries, by the Ukaz of His imperial majesty September 8, 1802, follows the statutes of June 18, 1863. The educational institutions dependent upon said management and extended over all the territory of the Empire, with the exception of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which has its own independent administration, are subordin ated to educational district administrations (11 in Euro pean Russia, the west-siberian district, East Siberia. And the territory of Turkestan). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.