The Electronic Library of Historical Documents has been replenished with a collection of decrees of Emperor Alexander III, published in 1894. One of the resolutions spoke of a loan for the maintenance of a Russian parish school in the village of Kerki.
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Emperor Alexander III promoted the study of the Russian language in Central Asia.
According to the document, the Ministry of Public Education submitted a request for a loan for the maintenance of a Russian parish school in the village of Kerki, on the outskirts of Bukhara.
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The application was considered and approved by the State Council. It was decided to allocate 1,060 rubles per year from the State Treasury as part of the loan for the needs of the school.
Opinion of the Council of State “His Imperial Majesty deigned to approve and ordered its execution.” Judging by the document, the request was prompted by an appeal from the Governor-General of Turkestan.
The latter reported that at that time there were quite a few Russian troops in the village of Kerki. But there was no school there, so the children of military personnel and civil servants sent to Kerki did not have the opportunity to receive even primary education.
Lieutenant General Baron Vrevsky requested the opening of the school. A similar school was already operating in Bukhara itself at that time. Vrevsky proposed to create a similar school where both boys and girls could study.
The amount for the maintenance of the Kerkin school was distributed in an interesting way. Of the 1,060 rubles that the emperor ordered to be allocated from the treasury, 600 rubles were allocated to the school director, who was also a teacher. He was also allocated a “finished apartment”.
The law professor was entitled to a salary of 120 rubles a year. 50 rubles a year were allocated for singing training, 40 rubles a year for teaching materials and a library, and 250 rubles a year for household expenses.
The certificate attached to the resolution shows that in 1886, Emperor Alexander III took a number of measures to promote the study of the Russian language in Central Asia.
He ordered the State Council to open single-class parish schools for boys and girls in the cities of Kokand, Namangan, Osh and Andijan in the Fergana region. Each of them was allocated 1,300 rubles a year for their upkeep.
In other parts of the Turkestan region, by order of the Emperor, 18 Russian primary schools were opened to educate the children of the local indigenous population. The maintenance of each of these schools costs the Russian treasury 995 rubles a year.
