Topography of Greek Education in Russia at the End ofthe 17th - First Third of the 18th Century According toManuscript Sources

The present article deals with the emergence and spread of Greek education in theRussian state in the late seventeenth and first third of the eighteenth centuries. It isproposed to distinguish several stages in this process, within which it is possible to tracethe changes in the topography of this phenomenon. The significant changes consisted inthe fact that the teaching of the Greek language and Greek book writing spread from thecapital center of education, founded by the Leichudes brothers, to other cities of thecountry. Novgorod became the next after Moscow in this process. The culturalphenomenon studied in this article is examined on the basis of the identified manuscriptsources, which included various teaching aids. These sources make it possible to clarifythe peculiarities of the study of Greek language and culture by Russian students in theschools of the Leichudes brothers and their followers.