Public education in the Russian Empire during the last third of the XIX century

Cherkasov, Alexander A.

Public education in the Russian Empire during the last third of the XIX century : parish Schools / Aleksandr A. Cherkasov, Michal Šmigeľ. -- The article deals with the parish schools development in Russia in the last third of the XIX century. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the church school development during the period of office of I. D. Delyanov as the Minister of Education (1880-1890) and the transition of the parish and peasant literacy schools under the jurisdiction of the Holy Synod, thus giving the primary education an ecclesiastical character. The measures taken by the government and by the Synod in order to raise the parish educational level, the place of the parish schools in the educational process (spiritual, moral and intellectual education) and the contribution towards reducing the illiteracy of the population are considered in this work.

In European Journal of Contemporary Education. -- Sochi : Academic Publishing House Researcher, 2016. -- ISSN 2304-9650. -- ISSN 2305-6746. -- Vol. 18, no. 4 (2016), pp. 418-429