scientist saw that the University was giving him less and less opportunities for realizing his ideas. He started accomplishing big deals and beginnings outside the University more and more often, which finally prepared his leaving.
The information about the threatening student meeting at the University appeared in home notes of D. I. Mendeleyev on March, 13th of 1890. Professors A. A. Inostrantsev and V. V. Dokuchaev made him a request to call the students for peace in case of need. Mendeleyev agreed. On March, 14th he spoke to the students, suggesting them to go away, but while understanding the correctness of many requests of those who had gathered at the meeting he addressed to the Minister for Public Education I. D. Delyanov and told him about the requests of the students. On March, 15th he persuaded the students before the lecture to give him the petition written by them in order to deliver it to the minister.
From the petition of the students to the Minister for Public Education:
“We want the charter of the universities and other high educational institutions to be based on the principles of autonomy – so that the rector and professors would be elected according to the Charter of the university of 1863, so that the university and student court would have been established… so that all the graduates of high schools regardless of religion, social position and without any secret characteristics from the direction of gymnasium and police would have a free access to the University… We are sure that the freedom of teaching will be given to our professors along with it…”
As we may see, those were the requests for the democratization of the university education, which were usual for that time. However, on March, 16th
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