The article analyzes the opinions expressed in the media and historiography concerning the role of charters in the history of Russian universities in the 19th and early 20th century. The author arrives at the conclusion that in the course of time the charters tended to become symbols rather than...

Publication and introduction prepared by M.V. Boguslavsky.The material is based on the Law for Standard Public General Education Schools and Temporary Regulations for the Standard Public General Education School, published in the Bulletin of the State Public Education Committee (no 6-8),...

Marina Vetchinova - Doctor of Science, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Professional Communication, Kursk State University. Address: 33, Radishcheva str., Kursk, 305000, Russian Federation. E-mail: marx2003@list.ruIn 1850, even Petersburg didnt have any educational institution to...

The article presents a collection of documents shedding light on relations of Russia with other countries in the fi eld of education in 16th-18th cc. In textbooks of history, it was long assumed that the idea to teach Russian youth abroad emerged in early 18th century, the time of Peter the...

The article continues a series of archive material publications, dealing with the 40th anniversary of the 1968 events. The preceding article in this series was a chronicle of the student unrest in Europe, published in No 4, 2008, of this journal. The author presents some facts characterizing...

The article analyzes the formal speeches of foreign professors at the Kharkov university given on ceremonial occasions in the early 19th century. Not only were these .speeches. a way for the university community to communicate with the local environment, but they also constituted a means to...

The formal school system developed after the Europeans arrived in South Africa, but until South Africa became a Union in 1910 it was almost exclusively provided for white children. The other racial groups were incorporated into the system to a larger extent in the 20th century, but due to the...

This article considers a controversial and diffi cult period in the history of Russias oldest art school, currently called the I.E. Repin Institute of Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture. The author mostly draws on previously unpublished archive materials, which until now were little used in...