Odesa & Mykolaiv: History of One Educational Project of the mid-XIX century

Abstract

The article considers one of the projects of founding of Novorossiysk University in the middle of the XIX century, concluded by the assistant trustee of the Kharkiv educational district K. Voigt as a result of inspection of educational institutions of the city of Mykolaiv in 1862. The historiography of the issue is covered, information about previous projects on the establishment of the University of Odesa is given, the content of the document and the explanatory note to it are analyzed. The project was called «Draft Charter and Staff of the Imperial Novorossiysk University in Nikolaev» and provided for the establishment in the city of Mykolaiv Novorossiysk University as part of the historical and philological, physical, mathematical and legal faculties with a number of departments. The Faculty of History and Philology was planned to be divided into departments of ancient classical literature, Slavic-Russian literature, historical sciences, and Eastern literature; the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics was proposed to be divided into departments of mathematical, natural and technical-agronomic sciences; legal - to its own legal and administrative department. The university was to be under the care of the Minister of Education and under the authority of the trustee of the educational district, headed by the rector of the university, to address educational and scientific issues created a university council, to address economic issues - the board. The total amount for the maintenance of the state was 177 thousand rubles a year. The reaction of the Odessa public to the «Mykolaiv» project was negative, the trustee of the Odessa educational district, administration of the Richelieu lyceum, intellectuals joined struggle. Arguments in favor of Odessa won and the «Mykolaiv» project and remained unfulfilled.