Г. И. Ерофеева In 2025, the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (formerly the Petrovskaya Agricultural and Forestry Academy) celebrated its 160th anniversary. This article analyzes the Academy’s pivotal role in training managerial personnel for the forestry sector of pre-revolutionary Russia. The problem-chronological method was employed for this research. Many Petrovka alumni (Petrovtsy) achieved prominent career milestones. The article provides biographical information on two distinguished Russian figures in agriculture and forestry: I.N. Klingen and V.T. Shatsky. It is emphasized that their years of study at the Academy laid the foundational groundwork for their subsequent scientific careers. Valentin T. Shatsky was a forester, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, and general commissioner of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich’s estates. While in exile, he conducted a comprehensive survey of the forests of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ivan N. Klingen was a world-renowned scientist, a specialist in subtropical crops, and the author of numerous scientific publications. He made significant scientific and practical contributions to the development of experimental agricultural practices. Klingen authored the seminal three-volume work “Among the Patriarchs of Agriculture of the Peoples of the Near and Far East: Egypt, India, Ceylon, China, and Japan.” The research source base comprised little-known documents preserved in domestic and foreign archives, supplemented by the personal archives of B.E. Shatsky, I.E. Klingen, and P.P. Paganuzzi. The uncovered materials will be valuable for studying the history of the Academy and Russian agronomic education of the late 19th century.
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