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On the 2 of September 1871 A.P. Kiselyov became a student of St. Petersburg University. On the 20 of September 1871 he got an allowance of the university to work as private tutor. He had to resume tutorship because of his straitened circumstances though Oryol Classical Boys Gymnasium sent him a hundred roubles to support at the beginning of his studies at the university.
A.P. Kiselyov started his classroom teaching in Voronezh Technical High School in 1876. That was the first year of its functioning after lengthy and serious discussions in the City Duma which had to choose between Military Gymnasium and Technical High School and to convince the Government of Russia to give its share of money for the establishment of the school. Sixteen years of Kiselyov's work at technical High School displayed his pedagogical talent and his dedication to teaching. While carefully preparing for his classes he developed a lot of exercises and instructions of his own for his students to use as resource means. In 1892 a gifted teacher was appointed to Voronezh Mikhailovskiy Cadet School, where he improved his ability to elucidate material clearly and scientifically exactly taking into consideration learners' interests and abilities. A.P. Kiselyov was a retired teacher when the October Revolution happened in 1917. However, he resumed teaching having realized that the state began a real fight against illiteracy. He taught Soviet officers and teachers in Voronezh and St. Petersburg working simultaneously at various courses for illiterate adults. A.P. Kiselyov was one the founders of Voronezh State Pedagogical University. His contemporaries emphasized that A.P. Kiselyov was a successful teacher, author of textbooks and lecturer.
A variety of the textbook he wrote were distinguished by , lucidity and exactness of materials presentation , its completeness and simplicity , logical cohesion and perfect choice of materials. These features have made them the best secondary school textbooks in Maths and Physics for decades. The books were not published for quite a short time after the October Revolution due to various experiments conducted in the secondary school but they were used as resource books by teachers.In the30-s the textbooks by A.P. Kiselyov became the principle textbooks for secondary schools again and stayed in use till the end of the 50-s. The textbook "Geometry" was still used at the beginning of the 70-s. Since the competition for new text-books was declared a number of textbooks have been in use in secondary schools. None of theme, however, managed to combine scientific exactness of definitions and simplicity of reasoning, lucid and condense presentation, the necessary correlation between the abstract and concrete, science and a school subject, a subject's logics and a student's psychology. The last but not the least,the language contained in the textbooks by A.P. Kiselyov shows colloquial stresses and intonation. The use of different fonts adds to easier comprehension. Visual Aids were widely used by A.P. Kiselyov in his teaching and public lectures which he used to deliver to enlighten ordinary people. His lectures were devoted to the newest of the new subjects. That is why he brought devices and equipment which lacked in Russia of that time from his trips abroad where he went rather often as he was interested in the state of the arts in teaching Math in Europe. No wonder his lectures were always been a great success.
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