. Estate Nobles Education in Ukraine in the Second Half of the XIX and Early XX Centuries: Donkhichotstvo or Tribute to Traditional Values?

Abstract

The article explores the factors that forced the nobility of Ukrainian provinces to protect and improve the state education, despite the desire of the supreme power of the Russian state to give it all of its nature. It is explained that its preservation was motivated by the common interests of the supreme power and the nobility regarding the preparation of bureaucratic personnel, the desire of the noble elite to raise children in observancing to traditional noble values.