 With a great concourse, the dedication took place on 31 October 1910.It was led by the bishop Gdovskii and by Benjamin Ladozhskii, the future metropolitan of Petrograd.In four floors, along with classrooms for 650 occupants, eight beautifully equipped specific-subject classrooms were built—for physics, chemistry, natural history, history, geography, drawing, modeling, and choir (three of these had auditoriums in the form of amphitheaters); there were additionally a carpentry studio, a library numbering 12 000 books in Russian, German, French, English, Latin and Greek, a sports hall and a cafeteria.