СОЦИОКУЛЬТУРНАЯ СОСТАВЛЯЮЩАЯ СВЕТСКИХ И ПРАВОСЛАВНЫХ АСПЕКТОВ НАРОДНОГО ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ В КОНЦЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX ВЕКА

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the socio-cultural activi-ties of the Russian public and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the field of public education in the Russian Empire in 1890-1917. The author considers popular education in the context of knowledge and education extension among the Russian population. The activities of secular and Orthodox periodicals, popular publishing houses are given. The libraries of primary schools, primarily parish and rural schools, as well as monastic book and manuscript collections are studied. The author proves that the public, local self-government bodies and the Russian Orthodox Church are the main actors of public educa-tion. Special attention is paid to the Yaroslavl Diocese, as one of the typical ones in the Russian Orthodox Church, and its contribution to the socio-cultural component of public educa-tion in Volga Region. A quantitative and meaningful analysis of the socio-cultural activities of the Yaroslavl Diocese in the field of librarianship and the development of the Central Library is given. As a result, the author concludes that at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Russian society, secular and spiritual persons made great efforts to spread knowledge and education among the population of the Em-pire through the development of publishing and library busi-ness, central schools and zemstvo schools, secular and Orthodox periodicals, cinematography and public readings. (The study is funded by the grant No. 22-28-01231 from the Russian Science Foundation, https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01231/).