Новгородская архиерейская школа и "разбор" духовенства 1736-1738 гг.

Христианское чтение. 2022. № 2. С. 294–315.

Салоников Н. В., Sutorius K.

The article discusses how the story about the “breaking up” of the clergy during the reign
of Anna Ioannovna, not unknown in historiography, was reflected in the history of the Novgorod bishops’
school. The diachronic approach to the sources that have already been involved in the presentation
of the history of the “breaking up”, as well as their comparison with sources on the history
of the bishops’ school, show that the question of the education of the children of clergy in the second
half of the 1730s was actualized during the “breaking up” of the children of the clergy and turned
out, in particular, to be connected with the fact that, by order of the Novgorod vice-governor, several
students of the Novgorod bishops; school were taken into military service. In the course of overcoming
the conflict that arose between the provincial administration and the rulers of the bishops’ school,
the connection between the education of church children, their age and exemption from military service
is affirmed in the administrative consciousness. The imperial decrees of September 7 and 25, 1737,
which consolidated this connection, created a situation in which it became profitable for clergy to send
their children to school, which led to an increase in demand for educational services, the emergence
of a network of schools and seminaries for the children of clergy, created according to the model Jesuit
collegia, and to the wide dissemination of education among the clergy, which the edicts of Peter’s time
could not achieve. In the Novgorod bishops’ school, the number of students increased several times
during the “breaking up”.

Keywords: Анна Иоанновна, новгородская архиерейская школа, Святейший Правительствующий Синод, история образования в России, разбор духовенства

Publication based on the results of: Новгородские архиерейские школы в период правления Феофана Прокоповича (1725-1736) (2020)