@article{Masliychuk_2020, title={“The Poltava Failures”. The Attempts to Open the Secular School in Poltava (the end of the 18th century – 1806)}, volume={1}, url={https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/870}, abstractNote={<p>The history of educational institutions, their opening and functioning, is inseperable from the analysis of social and intellectual changes. The secular schools and the ideas of Enlightenment introduced new values and categories which penetrated all spheres of life in Eastern Europe. The history of educational changes is especially interesting in the era of great transition from scholastic to secular education. This pattern perfectly fits the attempts to establish a full-functional secular schools in the town of Poltava at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. After the liquidation of Hetmanate an important Cossack town of Poltava was ascribed to the New Russia (Novorossiyskaia) gubernia and, later, the Ekaterinoslav namestnichestvo. It has not become the administrative centre, but for some period of time served as a centre of the eparchy. Because of that in the years of 1779–1798 Poltava was a place where Slavianskaia (Ekaterinoslavskaia) seminary functioned. This seminary was similar to the orthodox collegiums of the Left-bank Ukraine. All attempts to introduce some secular subjects to the seminary failed. The educational reform and the opening of the town„s specialized school (uchilishche) happened very lately, - in 1799 only, - after the ascription of Poltava to the Little-Russian gubernia. The changes in Poltava„s educational system occured in the context of the appointment of this town a gubernia„s centre in 1802. Yet innovations introduced by governor general Oleksiy Kurakin faced numerous difficulties, including the lack of money and buildings, local nobility„s reluctance to finance the philanthropic schools, and the absence of the efficient management for the educational system. The situation was stabilized in 1806 only with the opening of the Poltava gymnasium. The issue of the secular school showed a certain „provincialization‟ of the former Hetmanate as well as the lack of the successful societal initiatives and the specificy of the administrative structure. Later on the establishment of the secular schools reflected the peculiarities of the social movements and the relationship between center and peripheries.</p&gt;}, number={44}, journal={Zaporizhzhia Historical Review}, author={Masliychuk , V. L.}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={24-28} }