The discussions on the educational model of the Orthodox Academy of the eighteenth century

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The discussions on the educational model of the Orthodox Academy of the eighteenth century

L.Yu. Posokhova,

Doctor in history, professor

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Annotation

The historiography of the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (Academy), Moscow Slavic Greek Latin Academy, and the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Pereiaslav Collegiums comprise hundreds of works where many valuable ideas and observations have been accumulated. At the same time, a number of diverging judgments coexist in literature regarding certain key characteristics of these educational institutions, such as estate-based vs. socially inclusive (soslovnyi or vsesoslovnyi) or progressive vs. archaic. Some of these interpretations date back to the nineteenth century and are still treated as axioms today.

The purpose of this article is to discover the main enduring historiographical stereotypes that influence how the nature of the Orthodox academies (collegiums) in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire is understood and to offer an explanation for them. By pinpointing differences in the interpretation of the characteristic features of the academy (collegium) model such stereotypes are identified.

The common post-Soviet approach to the analysis of historiography, which involves segregating periods of study and grouping works by the topic or level of generalization, means that historiographical overviews rarely touch on the issue of the essential traits of an educational model. Evaluations of these institutions in terms of semantic-structural and semantic-axiological dichotomies, such as East-West, indigenous-alien, or progressive-archaic, I view as obsolete. Overcoming rigid linear oppositions and reorienting research towards interpenetration as opposed to unyielding polarity will help us better to understand the peculiarities of the phenomenon of the Orthodox academy (collegium) and to compare its features to the basic features of the analogous Western European educational institutions, such as the Jesuit collegium or pre-classical university.

Keywords: history of education, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Moscow Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Orthodox collegium, pre-classical university, Jesuit collegium.

Аннотация

Дискуссии об образовательной модели православной академии восемнадцатого века

Л.Ю. Посохова, д.и.н., профессор., Харьковский национальный университет им. В.Н. Каразина

Историография Киево-Могилянского коллегиума (академии), Московской славяно- греко-латинской академии, Черниговского, Харьковского и Переяславского коллегиумов насчитывает сотни работ, накоплено немало ценных выводов и наблюдений. При этом в литературе сосуществует ряд противоречивых оценочных суждений, относящихся к ключевым характеристикам этих образовательных институций («сословные» / «всесословные», «прогрессивные» / «архаические» и т.п.). Некоторые из оценок возникли еще в Х1Х в. и сегодня используются авторами как аксиомы. Это свидетельствует о слабости историографической рефлексии, о наличии различных методологических подходов, которые далеко не всегда осознанно применяются исследователями.

Цель статьи - выявить основные устойчивые историографические стереотипы, влияющие на трактовку сущности православных академий (коллегиумов) в Российской империи XVIII в. и предложить их объяснение. Фиксация таких стереотипов осуществлялась путем установления различий в трактовках характеристических особенностей модели академии (коллегиума). Распространенный на постсоветском пространстве подход к анализу историографии с выделением периодов исследования (дореволюционный, советский, современный) и группировкой работ по темам или степени обобщения (по истории образования или церкви, конкретного учебного заведения или развития образования и культуры в целом) приводит к тому, что в историографических обзорах редко затрагивается вопрос о сущностных характеристиках образовательной модели. В результате и сегодня продолжают применяться определения уровня программы обучения в академии (коллегиуме) в категориях «общеобразовательный», «средний», «высший». Проявлением устаревшего подхода автор считает попытки оценивать эти учебные заведения, ориентируясь на дуальные семантико-структурные и семантико-аксиологические оппозиции: Восток - Запад, «свой» - «чужой», прогрессивный - архаичный. Преодоление жестких линейных оппозиций, переориентация исследования на взаимопроникновение и разрушение противостояния vis-а-vis позволит лучше понять особенности феномена православной академии (коллегиума), а также сопоставить их с признаками аналогичных западноевропейских учебных заведений (иезуитский коллегиум, доклассический университет). Такой подход дает возможность проследить направления трансфера идей и опыта, выявить механизмы адаптации европейских культурно-образовательных форм и традиций на восточноевропейском пространстве.

Ключевые слова: история образования, Киево-Могилянская академия, Московская славяно-греко-латинская академия, православный коллегиум, доклассический университет, иезуитский коллегиум.

In the eighteenth century, the most important educational centers in the Russian state, influencing all aspects of cultural life, were the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (Academy) The Kiev (Mohyla) collegium received the status of “academy” first in the Polish Commonwealth and then in the Russian state as well. and Moscow Slavic Greek Latin Academy. No less significant, though not as widely known, were the three Orthodox collegiums - in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and PereiaslavAppeared (in that order) in 1700, 1726, and 1738. There were no other “Orthodox collegiums” in the Russian Empire. Further, in the documents of the Synod they were often referred to as “academies.” For the Kyiv Academy, along with the term “academy”, such names as “collegium,” “collegia,” and “scho ols” are found in the paperwork of the Synod throughout the eighteenth century.. Their founders used the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as the basic template. The historiography of these establishments comprises hundreds of worksHere we will cite only the principal works, in which overviews of historiography can be found. On Kiev Academy: Sevcenko I. The Many Worlds of Peter Mohyla // Harvard Ukrainian Studies. The Kiev Mo- hyla Academy. 1984. Vol. 8, no. 1/2. P. 9-44; Sysin F Peter Mohyla and the Kiev Academy in Recent Western Works: Divirgent View on Seventeenth Century Ukrainian Culture // Harvard Ukrainian Studies. The Kiev Mohyla Academy. 1984. Vol. 8, no. 1/2. P. 155-187; Sharipova L.: 1) Eshche o “Cheloveke mnogikh mirov”: Petr Mogila - traditsionalist, reformator, opportunist // Ab Imperio. 2000. No. 1. P. 53-73; 2) Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780. Manchester, 2006; Iaremenko M. “Akademiki” ta Akademiia. Sotsialna istoriia osviti i osvichenosti v Ukraini XVIII st. Kharkiv, 2014. On the Moscow Academy: Andreev A. u. Nachalo universitetskogo obrazovaniia v Rossii v otechestvennoi i zarubezh- noi istoriografii // Otechestvennaia istoriia. 2008. No. 4. P. 157-169; Larionov A.A. Reformy Moskovskoi Slaviano-greko-latinskoi Akademii (vtoraia chetvert XVIII - nachalo XIX v.) v kontekste razvitiia vysshego obrazovaniia v Rossii // Vestnik of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanities University. History of the Russian Orthodox Church. 2014. Iss. 4 (59). P. 74-84. On the collegiums: Posokhova L.Iu. Pravoslavnye kollegiumy na peresechenii kultur, traditsii, epokh (konets XVII - nachalo XIX v.). M., 2016., including many specialized studies dealing with different periods in their history, their curriculum, pedagogical practices, faculties and student bodies, cultural impact on the wider society, and prominent personalities. Many valuable ideas and observations have been accumulated over more than a hundred years of research on these and other topics. But at the same time, a number of contradictory judgments and interpretations regarding the typology and basic features of these educational establishments continue to exist in the literature side by side. Some controversial definitions of the Orthodox academies and collegiums were put forward in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and are still in use today: estate-based (clerical) vs. socially inclusive (soslovnyi/vsesoslovnyi); progressive vs. archaic. The educational stage, which these institutions corresponded to, has also been estimated differently, with the use of such terms as “general" “secondary,” or “higher education” (obshcheobrazovatelnyi, srednii, or vysshyi). Unfortunately, many long-lived historiographical clichйs are still employed by scholars without reflection, as axioms.

Such a considerable range of definitions applicable to the distinguishing features of this type of educational institution, in our view, is indicative of something of a methodological crisis, and the established historiographical commonplaces have to be replaced. The coexistence of diametrically opposed views concerning the basic characteristics of these schools signals a “methodological confusion” and calls into question the use of a number of existing interpretations in the study of the more general educational and cultural developments in the eighteenth-century Russian Empire. Serious divergences in assessment make it difficult to analyze and, even more so, compare educational and cultural phenomena in the west and east of Europe.

The purpose of this article is to locate the main persistent historiographical stereotypes influencing the interpretation of the nature of the Orthodox academies (collegiums) and to offer an explanation for them. We identify such stereotypes by establishing a number of defining points in the discussion of the parameters and characteristic features of the model of the academy (collegium). The checklist of these “markers” does not always coincide with the repertoire of questions that have at different times become objects of scholarly reflection. We believe that accomplishing our goal will make it possible not only to evaluate more correctly the phenomenon of the Orthodox academy (collegium) itself and to verify the existing interpretations, but also to incorporate this institutional model into the general course of the development of education in Central and Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century.

First of all, it appears necessary to identify the historiographical “framework” that up to this day has defined the parameters of the study of theological schools in the eighteenth-century Russian Empire. We should note that the common post-Soviet approach to the analysis of historiography, which involves differentiating periods of study (pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and post-Soviet) and grouping works by degree of generalization (history of education or church history, history of a particular academy), means that the cardinal “points of tension” disappear from view, and no polemics develop around themRare exceptions are those works in which the academies are shown in connection with the development of the European academic (university) tradition: Sazonova L.I. Vostochnoslavianskie akademii XVI-XVIH vv. v kontekste evropeiskoi akademicheskoi traditsii // Slavianovedenie. 1995. No.3. P. 46-61; Andreev A.Yu. Nachalo universitetskogo obrazovaniia v Rossii v otechestvennoi i zarubezhnoi istoriografii. P. 157-169.. In studying the details of the instructional process, specifics of the course offerings in connection with the development of scientific knowledge, or the work of particular personalities, scholars have often been unconcerned about correlating the data they received with the typological characteristics of the school. On the other hand, the conclusions of researchers working on school courses of rhetoric, poetics, philosophy, and theologyHere are some of these works: Masliuk V.P Latinomovni poetiki i ritoriki XVII - pershoi polovini XVIII st. ta ikh rol u rozvitku teorii literaturi na Ukraini. Kiev, 1983; Simchich M. Philosophia rationalis u Kievo-Mogilianskii akademii. Vinnitsia, 2009; Sutorius K.V. Bogoslovie v Kievo-Mogilianskoi akademii v 1751-1763 gg. // Religioznoe obrazovanie v Rossii i Evrope v kontse XVIII - nachale XIX v. / ed. by E. Tokareva. M.; SPb., 2009. P. 127-202; Siedina G. The Reception of Horace in the Courses of Poetics at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy: 17^th - First Half of the 18^th Century: doct. diss. Harvard University, 2014; Sutorius K.V. Moral Theology in the Kiev-Mohyla Academy Based on Manuscript Sources // Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. History. 2018. Iss. 1. P. 5-28., and using highly specialized methods in their analysis of lecture notes and manuscript books are not always taken into account by historians dealing with more general issues of education. The prevalence of this or that stereotype can also be conditioned by the current general approaches to the history of education, which, in their turn, are part and parcel of the socio-cultural context of their era. Let us turn to the identification and analysis of these basic approaches. Given the extensive historiography, in this article we will limit ourselves to typical examples taken from different periods of study.

The efforts to fit the curriculum of the Orthodox academies and collegiums into one of the stages and varieties of modern formal education - “general,” “secondary,” or “higher” - stem from the desire to determine their place in the “educational system” of the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century. The urge to build a similar “system” was evident in scholarship as early as the nineteenth century. In those cases where authors outlined a succession of “educational rungs" they sought to fill them with specific types of schools, which also meant trying to place into the “system” the educational establishments that are the subject of our article. Regarding the “academy,” nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians were unanimous in classifying it as an institution of higher learningLarionov A.A. Reformy Moskovskoi Slaviano-greko-latinskoi Akademii (vtoraia chetvert' XVIII - nachalo XIX v.) v kontekste razvitiia vysshego obrazovaniia v Rossii. P. 75; Fedotov V.E. Kievo-Mogilianskaia akademiia posle Petra Mogily // Vestnik of O.N. Nekrasov Kostroma State University. 2016. No. 2. P 26.. At the same time, the curriculum level of the “collegium” was identified by most nineteenth-century authors as “higher”Rozhdestvenskii S.V. Ocherki po istorii sistem narodnogo prosveshcheniia v Rossii v XVIII i XIX vekakh. Vol. 1. SPb., 1912. P 68; BagaHi D.L. Istoriia Slobidskoi Ukraini. Kharkiv, 1990. P 193., with only some relegating it to “secondary education”Parkhomenko V.K istorii obrazovaniia na Ukraine // Kievskaia starina. 1905. No. 9. P 242.. Opinions of Soviet and present-day historians have varied. One can come across definitions of collegiums as schools of “higher”Vozniak M.S. Istoriia ukrainskoi literaturi. Vol. 3. Viki XVI-XVIII. Lviv, 1924. P. 14; Grushevskii O. Zmini shkilnoi sistemi na Livoberizhzhi v XVIII v. // Ukraina. 1924. Kn. 1- 2. P 83; Popov PM. Z listuvannia G.S. Skovorodi // Radianske literaturoznavstvo. 1955. No. 18. P. 58; Bogoliubov A.N. Rossiiskaia nauka XVIII veka // Voprosy istorii. 1980. No. 4. P 92; Ship N.A. Russko-ukrainskoe kulturnoe sotrudnichestvo v XVIII - pervoi polovine XIX v. Kiev, 1988. P 9; Istoriia ukrainskoi kulturi. Vol. 3. Ukrainska kulturi drugoi polovini XVII-XVIII st. / ch. ed. B. 6. Paton. Kiev, 2003. P. 692; Mikhashchenko A.L. Dukhovnoe obrazovanie v Rossiiskoi imperii. Kurgan, 2005. P. 78. or “secondary education”Sliusarskii A.G. Slobidska Ukraina. Istorichnii naris KhVII - KhVIII st. Kharkiv, 1954. P 203-204; Mikitas V. Davnoukrainski studenti i profesori. Kiev, 1994. P 138; Popovich M. Naris istorii kulturi Ukraini. Kiev, 2001. P 247; Aleksiuk A.M. Pedagogika vishchoi osviti Ukraini. Istoriia. Teoriia. Kiev, 1998. P 62. or “establishments of higher type”Medynskii E.N. Shkola i pedagogika v Rossii v pervoi polovine XVIII v. // Ocherki po istorii pеdagogiki / ed. by N.A. Konstantinov. M., 1952. P 86..

It is notable that, even when the fact is acknowledged that in the eighteenth-century Russian Empire the educational system as such did not yet take shape, modern students of the history of education often insist on drawing a line from the primary link in the educational chain through the secondary (collegiums) to the higher (academies)See for instance: Istoriia ukrainskoi kulturi. Vol. 3. P 432.. Still, in the last decades we have been able to observe a certain expansion of the categorical apparatus. Thus, in present-day Russian historiography some authors call the eighteenth-century Kyiv and Moscow Academies “higher specialized educational institutions”Avrus A.I. Istoriia rossiiskikh universitetov. Ocherki. M., 2001. P. 15., and others - an embodiment of the “general-education school,” which, even while offering classes in theology, did not pursue only narrowly professional goalsSukhova N. Iu. Vysshaia dukhovnaia shkola: problemy i reformy (vtoraia polovina XIX veka). M., 2012. P 33, 37..

Until the end of the eighteenth century, a system of education in which schools would correspond to clearly defined stages, and a continuity of rungs would be observed did not exist in the Russian Empire (although several projects were prepared and certain steps were taken in this direction). All the elements necessary for a “system” came together only at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the course of the large-scale reforms in the field of education that unfolded at the time. But more importantly, we should not forget that the eighteenth-century academies and collegiums, as syncretic institutions, incorporated under their roof several stages of formal education, from elementary to “higher” sciences (philosophy and theology). That is why their “diplomas” issued to students methodically listed the courses (“schools”) each student had completed. Such a common trope, found in many works today, as naming renowned personalities who “graduated from the academy” without specifying the “school” of sciences in which these individuals obtained their education does not provide sufficient understanding of the level of knowledge gained. Applying the terms “secondary,” “higher,” or “general education school” to the academies and collegiums of the eighteenth century leads to modernization of the past in later-period categories and ignores the actual early modern educational practices.

The second dimension of the ongoing academic discussion regarding this educational model is connected with the interpretation of the character of the Orthodox academy or collegium as either “estate-based” or “pan-estate” / ”estate-neutral” (socially inclusive) (soslovnyi, vsesoslovnyi, or vnesoslovnyi). In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, historians wrote a lot about the “pan-estate (socially inclusive) nature” (vsesoslovnosf) of Kyiv Academy and the collegiums as their characteristic trait, distinguishing them from seminaries and other schools in the Russian Empire. It would seem that during the Soviet period the dominant class approach would have required historians to take an unequivocal stance on this question, but, notably, we continue to observe diametrically opposing assessments in Soviet historiography. Parallel definitions of these educational institutions as either “estate-based clerical establishments” or “pan-estate (socially inclusive) educational institutions” persisted. Surprisingly, we still find such characterizations in academic literature - used as a rule without any reflection, as self-evident. Today, most researchers call Kyiv Academy and the collegiums “pan-estate (socially inclusive) centers of enlightenment”Liubzhin A.I. Kharkovskii kollegium v XVIII - nachale XIX v. // Voprosy obrazovaniia. 2008. No. 3. P. 255., although in specialized works one can sometimes come across such definition as “estate-neutral (socially inclusive) theological institution”Andrushchenko M. Parnas virshotvornii. Kievo-Mogilianska akademiia i ukrainskii literaturnii pro- tses XVIII st. Kiev, 1999. P. 158.. In descriptions of Moscow Academy, this feature has not been brought to the forefront. Significantly, one of the latest special works on the subject concludes that Moscow Academy was a pan-estate (socially inclusive) higher institution in the first half of the eighteenth century, but later on “the status of a clerical educational establishment began to be attached to it”Larionov A A. Reformy Moskovskoi Slaviano-greko-latinskoi Akademii (vtoraia chetvert XVIII - nachalo XIX v. v kontekste razvitiia vysshego obrazovaniia v Rossii. P. 75, 78..

It should also be clarified that the “estate” character of a school in this case traditionally means the inherited status of those who attended it. However, it is important to consider this problem not only in terms of the opportunities and desire on the part of members of different estates to study at these academies (collegiums), but also in terms of their prospects to leave “their own” estate. As far as Kyiv Academy and the collegiums are concerned, recent studies testify that throughout the eighteenth century they could be attended by people of different estates, and all of them (including students of clerical and Cossack descent) after graduation had extensive opportunities to gain secular office and change their estate statusIaremenko M. “Akademiki” ta Akademiia. Sotsialna istoriia osviti i osvichenosti v Ukraini XVIII st. P. 416-426. - As for the Moscow Academy, conclusions have been advanced concerning changes in the makeup of the student body, but students' subsequent life trajectories have not been explored in sufficient depth..

The same line of discussion continues in the attempts to evaluate the general tendency and nature of teaching in the collegiums within the framework of the “progressive-archaic” dichotomy. Naturally, Soviet scholars were unanimous in interpreting the academies and collegiums as archaic institutions. But even in the latest historiography, one can come across the opinion that in their structure and the direction of their curriculum these schools belonged to the archaic typeLapteva L.P. Istoriia Rossiiskikh universitetov XVIII - nachala XX veka v noveishei otechestvennoi literature (1985-1999 gody). Rossiiskie universitety v XVIII-XX vekakh. Iss. 5 / ed. by V.I. Chesnokov. Voronezh, 2000. P. 17.. In this regard, it is important to note that the epithet “archaic” is used when the Orthodox academies and collegiums are juxtaposed with the model of the “classical” university, whose features started to take shape in the second half of the eighteenth century. But the era of the “classical” university would truly begin only at the turn of the nineteenth century. Therefore, the Orthodox academies and collegiums should rather be compared to the corresponding “pre-classical” stage in the evolution of the European university and to other types of educational establishments in early modern Europe (as is well known, the “pre-classical” university and the church were so inextricably linked that trying to draw a boundary between them would be pointless; this type of university is often referred to as “clerical”).

The assessment of the Orthodox academies and collegiums depends on scholars' answer to another question - whether this was a borrowed model or the result of indigenous creative efforts. Already in the nineteenth century, historians working on Kyiv-Mo- hyla Academy and the collegiums noted and began to analyze the common features of Orthodox and Jesuit collegiums. A study by the Polish historian A. Jablonowski generated discussions in its time for the stress on the colossal influence of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as an intermediary in the translation of the Jesuit teaching conventions onto the broad expanse of Eastern EuropeJablonowski A. Akademia Kijowsko-Mohilanska. Zarys historyczny na tle rozwoju cywilizacji za- chodnej. Krakow, 1899-1900. S. 229-276.. During the same period, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Russian/Ukrainian scholars concluded that Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Orthodox collegiums adopted the Jesuit model and the Western European (Jesuit) educational traditionSolntsev P Ocherk istorii Kharkovskogo kollegiuma. Kharkov, 1881. P. 1; Petrov N. I. Znachenie Kievskoi Akademii v razvitii dukhovnykh shkol v Rossii s uchrezhdeniia Sv. Sinoda v 1721 godu i do po- loviny XVIII veka. Kiev, 1904. P. 29, 50.. It was this train of thought that prompted historians for the first time to raise the question of the content of the terms “collegium” and “academy” and stimulated closer comparisons with Jesuit and other schoolsPetrov N.I. Kievskaia akademiia vo vtoroi polovine XVII veka. Kiev, 1895. P. 65.. In essence, Jesuit and Orthodox collegiums began to be viewed as phenomena of the same nature (although at the turn of the twentieth century this idea was not so clearly articulated).

In the history of Moscow Slavic Greek Latin Academy, the arrival of “Kyiv scholars” was associated with the beginning of a new, “Latin” period, as opposed to the previous “Greek” oneSmirnov S.K. Istoriia Moskovskoi slaviano-greko-latinskoi akademii. M., 1855. P. 34-35.. Further, as early as the nineteenth century, some scholars observed that the acceptance of the “Latin template” led to the distortion of the national normsVladimirskii-BudanovM. Gosudarstvo i narodnoe obrazovanie v Rossii XVIII veka. Iaroslavl', 1874. P. IV.. Soviet historiography typically denied any orientation toward Jesuit schools as models for imitation in the Slavic lands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and tried to emphasize indigenous priorities rather than study the mechanisms and effects of Western cultural influenceMedynskii E. N. Bratskie shkoly Ukrainy i Belorussii v XVI-XVII vv. i ikh rol v vossoedinenii Ukrainy s Rossiei. M., 1954. P. 4-5.. An approach stressing the struggle between two directions of “enlightenment” (“Greek” and “Latin”) as the dominant thread running through the early modern educational developments is characteristic of modern Russian historiography as wellBogdanov A.P Iz predystorii petrovskikh preobrazovanii v oblasti vysshego obrazovaniia // Re- formy vtoroi poloviny XVII-XX vv.: podgotovka, provedenie, rezultaty / ed. by F.V. Shelov-Kovediaev. M., 1989. P. 45; Petrov FA. Zarozhdenie sistemy universitetskogo obrazovaniia v Rossii // Universitet dlia Rossii: Vzgliad na istoriiu kultury XVIII stoletiia / eds V. V. Ponomareva, L.B. Khoroshilova. M., 1997. P. 67..

As part of the emergence of a new national narrative, the most recent Ukrainian historiography has begun to write about the articulation of the “Ukrainian type of education” and “the making of a national school of higher type” as the chief regional trend in the eighteenth-century educationPakhlovska O. Kievo-Mogilianska akademiia iak faktor formuvannia natsionalnoi samobutnosti ukrainskoi kulturi // Ukraina: Kulturna spadshchina, natsionalna svidomist, derzhavnist. Iss. 5. Prosphonema: istorichni ta filologichni rozvidki, prisviacheni 60-richchiu akademika Ia. Isaevicha. Lviv, 1998. P. 461; Istoriia ukrainskoi kulturi. Vol. 3. Ukrainska kulturi drugoi polovini XVII-XVIII st. / ch. ed. B. 6. Paton. Kiev, 2003. P. 431.. However, the thesis about the progressive “Ukrainian model” can also be found in a very recently defended Russian dissertation on this topicFedotov V.E. Kievo-Mogilianskaia akademiia i razvitie obrazovaniia na Ukraine XVII - nachalo XVIII v.: diss. ... kand. ist. nauk. SPb., 2018. P. 196.. And yet, the “Latin” schools and medieval and pre-classical universities of Europe did not have a “national” coloringAndreev A. Iu. Rossiiskie universitety XVIII - pervoi poloviny XIXh veka v kontekste universi- tetskoi istorii Evropy. M., 2009. P. 94.. Regionalization intensified in line with the confessionalization of education in the Reformation era and its aftermath, and strictly national models are a phenomenon of a later time.

Recognizing the significant influence of Kyiv Academy, Russian historiography nowadays often puts forward a thesis that the problem of higher clerical school at the turn of the nineteenth century lay in its “historically developed dependence on the Western scholastic tradition”Sukhova N.Iu. Vysshaia dukhovnaia shkola: problemy i reformy (vtoraia polovina XIX veka). P. 52..

The key discussion points mentioned above, in our view, testify to the crisis of those approaches that have focused on trying to evaluate educational institutions on the basis of dual semantic-structural and semantic-axiological oppositions: East-West, indigenous-alien, or progressive-archaic. Overcoming rigid linear oppositions and reorienting research toward the fusion and erosion of contrarieties will make it possible not only to better understand the peculiarities of the model of the educational institutions in question and to compare them to the features of analogous Western European schools, but also to trace the directions of transfer and to identify the mechanisms involved in the adaptation of Western European cultural and educational forms and traditions to the Eastern European terrain.

Still, as V. Friyhoff has rightly noted, we should recognize that problems with typology and difficulties in using the traditional terminology, especially in defining the term “university,” are most evident in Eastern EuropeFriikhof V. Nachalo Novogo vremeni: patterny // Alma Mater. 1999. No. 3. P. 43..

Efforts to initiate a conversation about the Orthodox academies from other methodological positions, using terms and approaches developed in the twentieth-century European historiography of universities, arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ukrainian and Canadian historians began to compare the results of the study of the history of educational institutions and instructional practices in the Ukrainian lands with the conclusions of “Western” historiography concerning the European humanistic school and universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesPylypiyk N.: 1) The Humanistic School and Ukrainian Literature of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century: Unpublished PhD Diss., Harvard University. Harvard, 1989; 2) Pedagogichna teoriia i ukrainska literatura XVII-XVIII st. // Ukrainske barokko: materiali I kongresu Mizhnarodnoi asotsiatsii ukrainistiv / ed. by O.V. Mishanich. Kiev, 1993. P. 71-76; Iakovenko N. Latinske shkilnitstvo i “shkilnii gumanizm” v Ukraini kintsia XVI - seredini XVII st. // Kiivska starovina. 1997. No. 1/2. P. 11-27.. In the subsequent years, Ukrainian historiography clearly showed a desire to take into account the common European achievements in the history of education when describing the model of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyGorskii V. Gvropeiska akademichna traditsiia v Kievo-Mogilianskii akademii // Religiino-filosof- ska dumka v Kievo-Mogilianskii Akademii: evropeiskii kontekst / ed. by V.S. Gorskii. Kiev, 2002. P. 7-38; Poliakov N.V., Savchuk V.S. Klassicheskii universitet: ot idei antichnosti k ideiam Bolonskogo protsessa. Dnepropetrovsk, 2007; Iaremenko M. “Akademiki” ta Akademiia. Sotsialna istoriia osviti i osvichenosti v Ukraini XVIII st.. A vivid example of a consistent application of the comparative approach to the history of education in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries in Russian historiography is a monograph by A. Yu. Andreyev, offering a comparative history of European and Russian universities.

We feel compelled to mention here a few other important works that have particularly influenced this type of scholarly inquiry in the post-Soviet terrain. Among them is a fundamental general work by European scholars on the history of the university, considering it a social institutionA History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1. Universities in the Middle Ages / ed. by H. Ridder-Sy- moens. Cambrige, 1992; A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 2. Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) / ed. by H. Ridder-Symoens. New York; Cambrige, 1996.. Several works by J. Kusber are devoted to the transfer of educational forms and ideas from Western Europe to RussiaKusber J.: 1) Eliten- und Volksbildung in Zarenreich wдhrend des 18. und in der ersten Hдlfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Studien zu Diskurs, Gesetzgebung und Umsetzung. Stuttgart, 2004; 2) Individual, Subject, and Empire. Toward a Discourse on Upbringing, Education, and Schooling in the Time of Catherine II // Ab Imperio. 2008. No. 2.. Equally important is the emphasis on the role of educational institutions in the penetration of Enlightenment ideas (pietism, rational philosophy) into the Russian EmpireMьhlpfordt G.: 1) Russlands Aufklдrer und die Mitteldeutsche Aufklдrung: Begegnungen, Zusammenwirken, Partnerschaft // Deutsch-russische Beziehungen im 18. Jahrhundert / Hrsg von C. Grau. Wiesbaden, 1997; 2) Sistema obrazovaniia v Galle i ee znachenie dlia Rossii 1696-1831 gg. (uchenye, uchitelia, uchilishcha, shkolnye reformy, knigi, didaktika) // Nemtsy v Rossii: russko-nemetskie nauchnye i kulturnye sviazi / ed. by G.I. Smagina. SPb., 2000. P. 159-169.. Studies of Jesuit education in the

Polish Commonwealth by modern Polish historians have enhanced our understanding of the nature of the model of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and other schools in Ukraine and the directions of their evolution For an overview of the modern Polish historiography of the problem, see: Grzebien L. Dotychcza- sowa literature o wkladzie jezuitow polskich do nauki i kultury // Wklad Jezuitow do nauki i kultury w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodow i pod zaborami / ed. by I. Stasiewicz-Jasiukowej. Krakow; Warszawa, 2004; Chynczewska-Hennel T. Akademia Kijowsko-Mohylanska w polskiej literaturze historycznej // Kievskaia Akademiia. 2006. Iss. 2-3. P 197-207..

It is currently a widely held opinion among Ukraine's early modern historians that Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Pereiaslav collegiums had a genetic connection with the Jesuit collegiums of the Polish Commonwealth, which manifested itself in all elements of the organization and content of instruction and guidance. Many authors regard Kyiv Academy as a fully “western” educational institution, in both content and forms of instructionCompare: Okenfuss M.J. The Jesuit Origins of Petrine Education // The Eighteenth Century in Russia / ed. by J.G. Garrard. Oxford, 1973. P 110, 114; Raeff M. Russian intellectual history: an Anthology. New Jersey, 1978. P 13; Isaevich Ia. Osvitnii rukh v Ukraini XVII st.: skhidna traditsiia i zakhidni vplivi // Ukraina XVII st. mizh Zakhodom ta Skhodom / ed. by O. Mishanich. Kiev, 1996. P 117; Nalivaiko D. Poetiki i ritoriki epokhi baroko // Ukrainske baroko. Vol. 1 / ed. by D.S. Nalivaiko. Kharkiv, 2004. P. 220.. At the same time, a synthesis of the achievements of European education on the basis of the Orthodox-Rus' cultural tradition is noted. Among modern scholars, there is now a broad agreement that the status attained by Kyiv Academy after gaining its privileges was similar to the status of a university-type institution that had evolved in Western Europe in the earlier centuriesPopovich M. Naris istorii kulturi Ukraini. Kiev, 2001. P. 248., to a higher-education establishmentZashtovt L. Liudvik Ianovskii i pochatok polskikh doslidzhen istorii universitetiv Rosiiskoi imperii // Kharkivskii universitet na pochatku svogo isnuvannia (1805-1820) / ed. by L. Ianovskii. Kharkiv, 2004. P XXX., or “true university”A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 2. P 48.. historiographic russian academy collegium

Many Russian historians today see Moscow Slavic Greek Latin Academy as a “university” (“pre-classical” university more precisely). This idea is found in a number of works by A. P. Bogdanov, B. L. Fonkich, A. Yu. Andreyev, and A. A. LarionovMore on these and other studies: Andreev A.Iu. Nachalo universitetskogo obrazovaniia v Rossii v otechestvennoi i zarubezhnoi istoriografii. P 167.. A. Yu. Andreyev associates the concept of “Orthodox university” with the phase of confessional universities (such as Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist) in Western Europe. The term “Orthodox university,” in his view, implies the status of Orthodoxy as the school's official religion. This term is not identical to “clerical university” or “university of the Russian Orthodox Church.” It is broader because the university was created with the participation of both church and state and served the interests of both - quite like other universities of the “pre-classical” eraAndreev A.Yu. “Ideia universiteta” v Rossii (KhVIII - nachalo KhKh v.) // “Byt' russkim po dukhu i evropeitsem po obrazovaniiu”: Universitety Rossiiskoi imperii v obrazovatelnom prostranstve Tsentralnoi i Vostochnoi Evropy XVIII - nachala XX v. / ed. by A.V. Doronin. M., 2009. P 11-12..

However, the formulation of this important thesis did not end the discussion. Thus, A. Andreyev pointed out that “it is not entirely clear just to what extent the features of the `pre-classical' university were really reflected in the practice of Moscow Academy at the beginning of the eighteenth century”Andreev A.Yu. Nachalo universitetskogo obrazovaniia v Rossii v otechestvennoi i zarubezhnoi is- toriografii. P. 167.. N. Yakovenko and M. Yaremenko expressed a similar idea with regard to Kyiv Academy, observing that its real status in the Russian Empire was not on par with that implied by the Western European university modelIakovenko N.: 1) Kiivski profesori za lashtunkami Gadiatskoi ugodi (pro sprobu peretvorennia Mogilianskoi Kolegii na universitet) // 350-lecie Unii Hadziackiej (1658-2008) / ed. by T. Chynczews- ka-Hennel. Warszawa, 2008. S. 305-326; 2) Chibuv 1701 r. rubizhnim dlia Mogilianskoi akademii u spriiniatti kiivskikh profesoriv KhVIII st.? // Ibid. S. 636-637.. Obviously, adopting the characterization “university” requires further analysis of a number of historical and legal terms describing “status” - their content and the ways in which these privileges and functions were understood, interpreted, and applied throughout the eighteenth century by both governments and representatives of the academic circles. Of course, we should remember that the eighteenth century marks the sunset of the “pre-classical university”, and therefore it is pointless to demand any “purity of the model”.

The identification and characterization of the main features of the academy (collegium) are closely associated with the delineation of the main phases and features of the transfer and adaptation of the “university idea” in Eastern Europe and the development of university education in the Russian EmpireImportant theoretical questions were raised during the work on the international project “Ubi Universitas, ibi Europa. Transfer and Adaptation of University Education in the Russian Empire,” sponsored by the German Historical Institute Moscow and Gerda Henkel Foundation (the author of this article was one of the participants). Several publications came out of the project: Feofanov A.M. Studenchestvo Moskovskogo universiteta XVIII - pervoi chetverti XIX veka. Moscow, 2011; Universitet v Rossiiskoi imperii XVIII - pervoi poloviny XIX veka / ed. by A.Iu. Andreev, S.I. Posokhov. M., 2012.. A thesis has been voiced in recent historiography that there existed two vectors (or paths) of the transfer of the humanistic school and university idea into the Eastern European arena: south-western and north-westernIn the course of work on the project it was decided to name the vectors of transfer after wind directions (see Posokhova L.Iu. Transformatsiia obrazovatelnoi traditsii v Vostochnoi Evrope XVII-XVIII vv. // “Byt' russkim po dukhu i evropeitsem po obrazovaniiu”: Universitety Rossiiskoi imperii v obrazovatelnom prostranstve Tsentralnoi i Vostochnoi Evropy XVIII - nachala XX v. / ed. by A.V. Doronin. M., 2009. P. 51; Universitet v Rossiiskoi imperii... P. 13.. Historically, the Orthodox academies and collegiums, created under the influence of Jesuit collegiums (universities), personified the south-western (chronologically earlier) vector of the advance of the European pre-classical university. Universities proper, which appeared in the Russian Empire in the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, represented the other, later vector (north-western), coming from the already largely “modernized” German universities.

In the context of the debates regarding the ways in which university ideas were transferred to the Eastern European lands, it is worth adding a few words about the variety of approaches to the periodization of the history of the Orthodox academy (collegium). For nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars it was based on key events in church history and the activities of individual hierarchs who headed these schools. In the Soviet era, socio-political developments and the emergence of secular schooling became the criteria of periodization. Still, at least some historians paid attention to the issue of internal changes dictated by the logic of institutional development. As an important marker, they pointed to the fact that since the mid-eighteenth century the Orthodox academies and collegiums had been actively seeking ways of revitalizing themselves. Historians analyzed several plans for the transformation of Kyiv and Moscow academies, as well as Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Pereiaslav collegiums, into “true universities”Rozhdestvenskii S.V. Ocherki po istorii sistem narodnogo prosveshcheniia v Rossii v XVIII i XIX vekakh. Vol. 1. SPb., 1912. P. 197, 250-313; Milovidov L. Proekti universitetu u Kievi u drugii polovini XVIII v. // Kiivski zbirniki istorii i arkheologii, pobutu i mistetstva. 1930. Vol. 1. P. 295-306; Sukhova N. Iu. Vysshaia dukhovnaia shkola: problemy i reformy (vtoraia polovina XIX veka). P. 43. On projects dealing with the collegiums see: Posokhova L.Iu. Pravoslavnye kollegiumy na peresechenii kultur, traditsii, epokh (konets XVII - nachalo XIX v.). M., 2016. P. 411-416.. While these projects were not destined to happen, they reflected not only uncertainty concerning the path to be chosen and the basis on which universities were to be created, but also the local elites' familiarity with the work of individual universities and the principles of their organization and functioning. This familiarity was the basis for the desire to have “real”, full universities.

The second half of the eighteenth century is important for the assessment of the nature of these educational institutions because during that period their instructional strategies began to reflect the achievements of early modern science. The curriculum was expanded, a number of “real” disciplines and new languages were included in it, and a transition was made to teaching the rational philosophy of Leibniz-Wolff. These developments show that the Orthodox academies and collegiums had the potential to become the basis for the creation of “full” universities. Compared to these institutions, the “pre-classical” Western European university does not appear a fundamentally different phenomenon - rather, it looks like the form that the Orthodox academies and collegiums had approached by the middle of the eighteenth century, having completed a historical trajectory of their own.

Thus, throughout the existence of the Orthodox academies and collegiums up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, two alternative paths of their possible transformation can be outlined: one is their conversion into “full-scale” (modernized) universities, and the other - their reorganization into estate-based professional establishments for the training of clergyPosokhova L.Iu. Pravoslavnye kollegiumy na peresechenii kultur, traditsii, epokh (konets XVII - nachalo XIX v.). P. 434.. The second option eventually became a reality. The academies and collegiums were turned into higher and secondary theological educational institutions - theological academies and seminaries - and filled the corresponding niche in the modernized educational system of the Russian Empire as it emerged in the early nineteenth century. The theological school reform that began in the Russian Empire in 1808 became an integral part of the overall changes in the sphere of education. It aimed at the professionalization of theological education and unification of theological schools and altered all the parameters of the model of the eighteenth-century Moscow and Kyiv Academies and collegiums.

Modern historiography has come a long way in rethinking the phenomenon of the Orthodox academy/collegium. We can assert that research and thinking in this field have risen to a new level. Yet historiographical stereotypes are still quite often found in scholarly literature. Their existence is objective since specialized studies represent the “cutting edge of scholarship”, and it takes time for the wider academic community to absorb innovations. Nevertheless, in our view, focusing on the historiographical aspects of the problem can give an additional push to the process of updating the general picture of the development of education and culture across the vast expanse of Eastern Europe.

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