To begin with, the year of 2023 in Russia is proclaimed the year of mentoring. More and more has already been fulfilled to make the outmost of great educators of our times for school in terms of upbringing the young people. This paper aims at investigating the milestones of Pogodin’s career, both as a historian and a tutor, in cultivating the core of teaching the youngsters. As is the case, history knows a great number of teachers who have made a deep impression greatly influencing on education of the youth. Among the tutors of the young, Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin as one of the outstanding personalities of the social and political life of his times, the 19th century Russia, may be considered both as a major historian of his times, and a teacher of the youth. Thus, as one of the most talented and prolific personalities of his era, a great publicist, a playwright, a collector, and a publisher, Pogodin’s life, and his creative novices and activities in history, and as well as in historical sciences, are worth of consideration and thorough discussion in professional discourse of a tutor nowadays. This paper may be of use for both investigators and educators of current issues of our times.

Keywords: history, the core of the social life, milestones of Pogodin’s life, talented historian and prolific personality, educator.