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Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii universitet im. A.I. Gertsena (RGPU)

Previous names

1924–1991	Leningradskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut im. A.I. Gertsena (LGPI) [A.I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute]
1922–1924	Petrogradskii gosudarstvennyi institut im. A.I. Gertsena (PGI) [A.I. Herzen Petrograd State Institute]
1920–1922	Tretii Petrogradskii pedagogicheskii institut im. A.I. Gertsena (3-ii PPI) [A.I. Herzen Third Petrograd Pedagogical Institute]
1918–1920	Tretii Petrogradskii pedagogicheskii institut (3-ii PPI) [Third Petrograd Pedagogical Institute]
1918–1925	Institut doshkol'nogo obrazovaniia [Institute of Preschool Education]
1918–1921	Pervyi Petrogradskii pedagogicheskii institut [First Petrograd Pedagogical Institute]
1903–1918	Zhenskii pedagogicheskii institut [Pedagogical Institute for Women]
1855–1903	Sirotskii institut Imperatora Nikolaia I (Nikolaevskii sirotskii institut) [Emperor Nicholas I Institute for Orphans (Nicolas Foundling Institute)]
1837–1855	Sirotskii zhenskii institut [Institute for Orphan Girls]
1770–1837	Sankt-Peterburgskii vospitatel'nyi dom [St. Petersburg Foundling Home]

History
The first predecessor of the present University was the instructional Foundling Home established in St. Petersburg in 1770 on the initiative of I.I. Betskoi, which until 1780 was a branch of the Moscow Foundling Home. In 1837 it was reorganized as the Institute for Orphan Girls and, after the death of Emperor Nicholas I in 1855, was renamed in his honor—the Emperor Nicholas Institute for Orphans (or the Nikolaevskii Foundling Institute). Leningrad A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical Institute (LGII), was founded in 1918 as the Third Petrograd Pedagogical Institute. In 1925 it was consolidated with the Institute of Preschool Education which had also been established in 1918. Its present name dates from 1991, when the status of LGPI was raised to that of a university. In January 1998 the University was registered as one of the most valuable monuments of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.
The Museum of the History of LGPI was founded in 1974.

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