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The Second Sumy Women's Gymnasium: A Historical Essay
Authors: Dmytro V. Kudinov
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This work is a microhistorical study that localizes the sixteen-year history of a separate educational institution – the Second Sumy Women's Gymnasium. The author used 98 sources, including 18 archives of the State Archives of the Sumy region (including 10 cases from the gymnasium fund). Other groups of sources are represented by periodicals, journals of the Sumy district zemstvo assembly, reports and estimates of the zemstvo, circulars of the Kharkiv educational district and address calendars of the Kharkiv province. The historiography is represented mainly by researches from the 2000s – 2010s.
For the convenience of material perception the text is rubriced with blocks: the Foundation of the Sumy grammar school and its further transformation into grammar school with a full course of training, Management of the grammar school, Society of the help to pupils in need, Financing, Pedagogical collective, Students, Educational work, Transformation of the gymnasium into a Soviet school.
The particular attention is paid to those who initiated the educational institution establishment and provided significant financial support for its existence. In this regard, the peculiarities of the activities of the Society for Assistance to Needy Students, which equalized the opportunities for education for women from various segments of the population. The financial situation of the educational institution, sources of the budget replenishment are described in detail. It has been found out that in the first years of the gymnasium existence the budget was formed mainly at the expense of subsidies from local authorities and donations from private individuals. Further, like in the vast majority of high schools, the finds were raised via contributions of parents for the students' «right to learn». It has been specified that before the February Revolution the financial and material situation of the gymnasium remained stable and only in the second half of 1917th a crisis arose, which led to the search for non-standard solutions to replenish the school budget. The advantage of females in the management and implementation of professional responsibilities in the gymnasium is emphasized. The staff of its employees is analyzed. The characteristics of students have taken into account their quantitative, ethno-confessional and class composition, as well as the success in acquiring knowledge. The characteristics of the educational work emphasize the participation of the gymnasium in school tourism movements.