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Рязанское Епархиальное женское училище / Ryazan Diocesan School for Girls - 1900s

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Рязанское Епархиальное женское училище
1900-х годов 

Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
The Ryazan Diocesan School for Girls
1900s

Music: From  Pas d'echarpe from "Le Pavilion d'Armide by N. Tcherepnin

In 1848, for over two and a half months, cholera ravaged Ryazan Province. The terrible consequences were terrible; the death toll reached over 13,400 including over 150 diocesan clergy. Children left homeless following the death of their parents was incalculable.
This affected  Metropolitan Gabriel deeply. He described the plight of the orphans of the clergy, "inherit from their parents alone orphans with no way of subsistence". He set about establishing a school for disadvantaged daughters of the clergy by donations from the local population and rich benefactors. By a decree of the Holy Synod in 1851 he was given permission to open a school for girls of the clergy. The official opening took place on January 1, 1853.
The Charter of the school regulated teaching in the following subjects:

1. The law of God with a sacred history and a brief explanation of the liturgy,
2. Russian language and Slavic 
3. Calligraphy and drawing patterns,
4. The first four steps of arithmetic and numbered in the accounts,
5. Russian history and geography,
6. General history
7. Church singing
8. Handicrafts in various forms and necessary information on gardening etc

With the Revolution, the school was closed

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