The Vologda diocesan women's school officially existed in Vologda from 1888 to 1918 .
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Background
For the first time, the idea of creating a school was voiced by Rev. Christopher on November 7, 1862 :
| ... with this I still do not leave myself to be flattered with the hope that the good, prudent, and good-for-good church of Abbess Smaragdѣ the Merciful Lord God will help me, little by little, to carry out my sincere thought about opening and opening a church in her inaugurated monastery initially, although a small school for the orphans bѣdnyh dѣvits spiritual call. |
But an orphanage appeared only in 1869 , when Abbess Sevastian, on the advice and with the blessing of His Grace Palladius, accepted 10 girls, mostly orphans of the clergy, into full care of [1] .
Initially, the shelter was located in the Igumen house, but it was soon decided to build a two-story house for it, which was laid on September 25, 1870 on the day of St. Sergius of Radonezh , a temple festival of a warm monastery church. Construction began in 1871 and was completed in 1873 [1] [2] [3] .
By the beginning of the 1880s, the number of pupils had increased to forty-five a year, so it was decided to combine the Abbot's house and the shelter building, building a new three-story building. The construction was carried out at the expense of His Grace Theodosius (up to 10 thousand rubles), and he spent another 9.5 thousand rubles later on its arrangement [1] .
The full course of study at the shelter was six years old: three classes, two years each. They taught reading, writing, “The Law of God”, an explanation of worship, sacred and domestic history, Russian, geography, arithmetic, singing and needlework. In total, from 1873 to 1888 there were 7 issues in the amount of 106 pupils [1] .
College Education
In 1888, Bishop Theodosius converted the orphanage into a diocesan school for women. Theodosius donated about 20 thousand rubles to his device and allocated a capital of 10 thousand rubles, from which interest went for the maintenance of the shelter [4] . In 1902 - 1903, the school moved to a new building on Zlatoustinskaya embankment (now the embankment of the VI Army , 113 / Chernyshevsky St. , 1), and in its place a children's shelter was built [5] [6] [7] . The school closed in 1918 [8] .
Training
The following subjects were taught at the school:
- God's law
- Holy story
- Catechism
- History of the Orthodox Church
- Russian language
- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Physics
- Geography
- Civil history
- Pedagogy
- Calligraphy
- Church singing
- Drawing
- Needlework
Graduates received a certificate for the title of home teacher, and half of them taught in parish schools [8] .
Number of Pupils
| Year | Total number | Including foreign | Including self-mailing | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873 | 25 | 3 | 3 | [9] |
| 1874 | 27 | 3 | 6 | [9] |
| 1875 | 28 | 3 | four | [9] |
| 1876 | 28 | 2 | eight | First release: 6 pupils [9] |
| 1877 | 37 | 2 | eight | [9] |
| 1878 | 42 | 2 | eleven | Second edition: 10 pupils [9] |
| 1879 | 45 | five | eleven | [9] |
| 1880 | 45 | five | 14 | Third edition: 15 pupils [9] |
| 1881 | 52 | 2 | eleven | [9] |
| 1882 | 52 | 2 | eleven | Fourth edition: 16 pupils [9] |
| 1883 | 57 | 2 | 12 | [9] |
| 1884 | 58 | 2 | eight | Fifth issue: 17 pupils [9] |
| 1885 | 66 | 2 | eight | [9] |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 “The Assumption Monastery in Vologda and the ascribed Nikolaev Ozerskaya Desert”, publishing house of Mother Superior Sergius, Vologda, 1899
- ↑ Gorny Uspensky nunnery (founded 1590) - Cultinfo
- ↑ No. 358. From the rules of an educational shelter at the Gorny Uspensky Nunnery in Vologda . January 31, 1874
- ↑ History of the Vologda Diocese (XVIII — XX centuries) Archival copy of June 27, 2009 on Wayback Machine - Vologda Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
- ↑ “Vologda in the past millennium. Essays on the history of the city ”, Vologda, ed. Antiquities of the North, 2004, p. 104
- ↑ Nepine S.A. Vologda before and now . - Vologda: Printing House of Znamensky and Tsvetov, 1906. - 238 p.
- ↑ "Orthodox Russian cloisters", St. Petersburg, 1910
- ↑ 1 2 Site of the Vologda Diocese: School - History
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 “Description of the Vologda Mountain Assumption Convent”, N. Suvorov, Vologda Province, 1885, p. 27