| Abstrakt: |
This article tries to reconstruct and analyze the conflict between students and administration in 1859 at the Kyiv Theological Academy. This conflict was different from the rest because it was not typical for this educational institution and, finally, grew into an open protest of students by XX and XXI courses against the administration of the educational institution. This is the first open protest of students, which, among other things, was made known outside the Academy. In 1861 the newspaper "Kolokol" published a collective statement from 1859 of the students of the Kyiv Theological Academy, addressed to the Russian emperor. It talked about the unsatisfactory conditions of providing students. It was not stated how this document ended up in the hands of the editors. The fact that the text appeared in a popular edition banned in the Russian Empire, which, moreover, was republished in Soviet times, shaped the approach to assessing the conflict in the Academy. On the one hand, the student performance remained almost the most famous page not only of the "revolutionary" but also of the everyday history of the Kyiv Theological Academy. On the other hand, most currently known works are not separately about the conflict of 1859. Instead, this is covered in general research on the Kyiv Theological Academy. A main feature of the research that mentions the conflict of 1859 is the emphasis on the superficial causes and consequences of the conflict (there were complaints from students about housing, living conditions, and studying process. Students entered into open conflict, that is why they were expelled from Kyiv Theological Academy). However, this is only a small part of the story. Other students' motives recede into the background or are not taken into the investigation at all. The article involves personal documents and archival materials (including behavior journals, decisions of the Academic Council, individual notes of the students, etc.), which demonstrate another view of the conflict of 1859. The conflict is able to show the problems in the structure of the Academy, the reactions of the students, and the methods of solving them on the part of the Academy's employees and teachers. It is proposed to outline the list of participants, trace the actions of students and the administration, and highlight the causes and consequences of conflict for both sides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
