The State of Schools of the Spiritual Department on the Territory of the Kostroma Province at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries: all-Russian laws and local specifics

Abstract

Based on archival data, the article examines the activities of parish schools in the Kostroma province in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Particular attention is paid to the direction of the vector of state policy in relation to the schools of the department of the Holy Synod, a comparative analysis of the quantitative indicators of schools of the clerical department and zemstvo educational institutions. For comparison, information is given on the zemstvo schools in the Kostroma province and other types of primary educational institutions. The article shows the reformation of parochial schools in May 1917.