V monografii vpervye issleduetsya kompleks problem, rassmatrivayushchikh stanovlenie i deyatel'nost' voenno-spetsial'nykh shkol po podgotovke artilleriyskikh i inzhenernykh spetsialistov dlya sukhoputnykh chastey russkoy armii v kontse XVII - pervoy polovine XVIII vv., a takzhe posledovatel'no proslezheny istoricheskie sud'by kazhdogo iz voenno-uchebnykh zavedeniy sozdannykh v epokhu reform Petra I, i poluchivshikh svoe razvitie v posleduyushchem. Issledovanie osushchestvleno na shirokom kruge istoricheskikh istochnikov, preimushchestvenno arkhivnykh. Chitatelya vpolne mozhet zainteresovat' stol' polnaya, raznostoronnyaya, detalizirovannaya informa?tsiya ob ikh chislennosti, soslovnom, natsional'nom sostave i prochaya interesnaya informatsiya kasayushchayasya takikh maloizuchennykh voprosov, kak vnutrenniy rasporyadok i distsiplinarnyy rezhim, organizatsionnye printsipy i organizatsiya uchebno-vospitatel'nogo protsessa v voen?no-spetsial'nykh uchebnykh zavedeniyakh Rossii kontsa XVII - pervoy polovine XVIII veka. Monografiya prednaznachaetsya, v pervuyu ochered', spe?tsialistam po voennoy istorii, istorii vysshey shkoly Rossiyskoy imperii, russkoy kul'tury kontsa XVII - XVIII vv.