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In 1784, Catherine II drew up detailed instructions for raising her grandchildren for Prince Nikolai Ivanovich Saltykov, the official educator of Alexander and Konstantin.

Her own son, the future Emperor Paul I, was brought up in the old way - he was wrapped in furs and overfed, and the mothers and old women indulging all his whims, according to the Empress, "caused him incomparably more physical and moral evil than good ... »

Ekaterina herself could not interfere in the upbringing of her little son, she could only watch and endure. When, after the palace coup of 1862, she became the sovereign empress, Paul's character was already hopelessly damaged.

In the talented pedagogical treatise "Instruction on Education ...", the principles of raising a healthy personality are set out - rigor, moderation, reasonable restrictions, combined with naturalness and freedom.