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Pskov Theological School- educational religious institution of the Pskov and Velikiye Luki diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was created on the basis of Greco-Latin classes, operating since the year. At the school there are two churches of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas.

Historically, the school was located in a building on Velikolutskaya Street (now Sovetskaya). It actually ceased to exist this year. It reopened this year on the street. Karl Marx (former Petrovskaya Street). The first graduation took place in 1997.

Currently an operating educational institution. Duration of training - 3 years.

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“Yes, we know, but the evil that I know for myself, I cannot do to another person,” Prince Andrei said more and more animatedly, apparently wanting to express to Pierre his new view of things. He spoke French. Je ne connais l dans la vie que deux maux bien reels: c"est le remord et la maladie. II n"est de bien que l"absence de ces maux. [I know in life only two real misfortunes: remorse and illness. And the only good is the absence of these evils.] To live for yourself, avoiding only these two evils: that is all my wisdom now.
– What about love for one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice? - Pierre spoke. - No, I cannot agree with you! To live only in such a way as not to do evil, so as not to repent? this is not enough. I lived like this, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live, at least try (Pierre corrected himself out of modesty) to live for others, only now I understand all the happiness of life. No, I don’t agree with you, and you don’t mean what you say.
Prince Andrei silently looked at Pierre and smiled mockingly.
“You’ll see your sister, Princess Marya.” You’ll get along with her,” he said. “Maybe you’re right for yourself,” he continued, after a short silence; - but everyone lives in their own way: you lived for yourself and you say that by doing this you almost ruined your life, and you only knew happiness when you began to live for others. But I experienced the opposite. I lived for fame. (After all, what is glory? the same love for others, the desire to do something for them, the desire for their praise.) So I lived for others, and not almost, but completely ruined my life. And since then I have become calmer, as I live only for myself.
- How can you live for yourself? – Pierre asked heatedly. - And the son, and the sister, and the father?
“Yes, it’s still the same me, it’s not others,” said Prince Andrei, but others, neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, are the main source of error and evil. Le prochain [Neighbor] are those, your Kyiv men, to whom you want to do good.

Theological school for men (now Industrial College)

Pskov, st. Krasnoarmeyskaya, 1

Historical reference

The Pskov district theological school for boys was founded on September 28, 1809 based on the decree of the Holy Synod of March 6, 1809 and opened at the Pskov Theological Seminary. In 1867, in connection with the reform of religious educational institutions, the school was separated from the seminary, receiving its own management.

On July 24, 1870, the clergy of the district bought for the school the vast household of the landowner Deryugin with a stone house, three wooden outbuildings and a garden on the left bank of the river. Great.

However, the cramped premises and the lack of a dormitory required additional construction, funds for which were collected in the form of deductions: from the income of the churches of the Pskov school district for 10 years.

In February 1884, at the insistence of Bishop Nathanael, 30% of the cash was allocated to each church at a time. The design of the hostel building has begun. Three projects, one after another, were rejected by the diocesan authorities.

The fourth was ordered to the new city architect A.M. Vekshinsky, who presented a comprehensive project for educational premises and a dormitory with the condition of demolishing all old buildings.

The project was approved by the next bishop, Hermogenes. A.N. Vekshinsky, who was traveling abroad, invited F.P., a friend from the Academy of Arts, to work in Pskov. Nesturkh, with whom they finalized the project and were present at the laying of the foundations on June 23, 1888. Nesturkh, who replaced Vekshinsky as city architect,
monitored construction and made clarifications to the project.

Construction lasted five years. Nesturkh developed a plan for the construction sequence, which made it possible not to interrupt classes at the school.

In April 1890, the northeastern wing was ready for classes; the old stone house was demolished, on the site of which an administrative and educational building was erected by the fall of 1891. The dormitory building was completed by September 15, 1892.

Construction costs - more than 83 thousand rubles - exceeded the funds raised, and for another three years the building stood without exterior decoration. In the years preceding the Great Patriotic War, the building housed a Soviet party school.

After the occupation of Pskov, the building remained without ceilings. It was restored in 1946 by students and teachers of the construction technical school, which in 1958 was reorganized into an industrial technical school, which carried out further development of the site.

Main architectural features

Located on the left bank of the river. Velikaya on the corner of Olginskaya embankment and st. Krasnoarmeyskaya. The building is two-story with a basement, rectangular in plan with risalits and courtyard. The walls are made of brick and plastered.

Spiritual school for men. 1888-1895 General plan. Pskov, Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 1

The volume was initially divided into three buildings, erected sequentially. Structural seams are visually determined by differences in roof heights and firewall exits onto it, which, however, does not violate the integrity of the perception of the compositional-spatial structure.

The architecture shows the influence of eclecticism with a predominance of elements of classicism.

Spiritual school for men. 1888-1895 General view from the east. Photo 1991 Pskov, Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 1

The compositional allocation of front and everyday life zones with different levels of finishing requirements expressed a decorative approach to the formation of a system of exterior and interior decor, characteristic of retrospectivism.

On the front facades facing the streets and in the hall of the 2nd floor, rich stylized classicism decor was used, courtyard facades and interiors of work premises were designed with minimal means.

The most magnificent and solemn design is the eastern façade, facing the river. Composition
symmetrically axial three-part with two large flanking risalits.

The axis is revealed by a shallow projection with a semi-circular opening of the main entrance, on the second floor by paired semi-columns, and at the ceiling level by a stepped attic.

Spiritual school for men. 1888-1895 Eastern façade. Central part. Photo 1991 Pskov, Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 1

The central part at the level of the 2nd floor is decorated with semi-circular windows with semi-columns in the piers. The wall of the first floor is treated with a large rustication. The decorative composition of the risalits is also symmetrically axial, completed with a small pediment against the background of the attic, the corners are secured with loose pilasters.

Composition of the southern facade facing the street. Krasnoarmeiskaya, generally asymmetrical, three-part with flanking risalits, protruding slightly and decorated differently. The right risalit basically repeats the decorative composition of the risalit of the main facade.

The outer window openings of both floors were replaced with false ones (during the restoration of the building in 1946, windows were also made on this facade). On the left risalit there are evenly spaced window openings with rustication as an appeal, accented by straight sandals. The left corner of the projection has a rounding with bracing along the entire height.

In the middle part, framed window openings are evenly spaced between the blades, coarsely rusticated on the 1st floor and smooth on the 2nd. The composition is completed with a complex-profile cornice.

The composition of the western façade is symmetrically axial with two flanking projections, the corners of which are rounded and braced.

Rustic window frames, sandriks, and profiled rods were used. Fixing the level of the interfloor ceiling and the crowning cornice, similar to those used on the left risalit of the southern facade.

Spiritual school for men. 1888-1895 Western façade. Photo 1991, Pskov, Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 1

A passage was added to the right risalit (1950s). In the center there is an arch leading to the courtyard. The wall of the northern facade is not balanced compositionally, the junction of buildings of different heights is random, the window openings are devoid of frames, only a draft and a cornice are used. The facades of the courtyard have also been solved.

There are ventilation openings with metal grilles and canopies on the walls of all facades. The system does not work. The planning solution is based on a corridor system.

The corridor, which goes around the courtyard, passes through all three buildings, connecting the staircases, providing all the necessary spatial connections of the functional zones: the northwestern part is 2-storey, intended for classes and was built first.

The eastern two-story building with a basement, for administration and educational premises, was built in the second stage. The southwestern two-story part of the building was designed as a boarding school dormitory and construction was completed.

Functional requirements determined the layout and size of the premises. In the decorative design of the interiors, the entrance group is highlighted - the vestibule of the main entrance, the lobby and the central staircase halls of the 1st and 2nd floors, but only in the hallway of the 2nd floor the walls are decorated with a relief in the form of an arcade, the ceiling and painting were made after the restoration of the roof.

The vestibule and vestibule still have decorative ceramic tile floors. The foundations are strip rubble, the load-bearing walls are made of brick, plastered, the ceilings and roof structures are wooden. The dimensions of the building in plan are 43 x 53 m.

College of Pskov State University (former men's religious school)

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One of the few surviving public buildings in Pskov from the late 19th century in eclectic forms with lush decoration. Plays a significant role in the panorama of the development of the Velikaya River embankment.

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1809 - 1918

Secondary specialized educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church. It opened in the city of Pskov in 1809, located in the wing of the theological seminary. In 1867, the school, having received its own board and becoming independent from the seminary, was located in a house rented from the merchant Smolensky on Pokrovskaya Street. On June 24, 1870, the clergy of the district bought for the school from the landowner Deryugin for 9 thousand rubles a house on the banks of the Velikaya River with a stone house, three wooden outbuildings, and a garden. The school had four classes, with 120 boys in them. On September 15, 1892, the dormitory building was opened. In 1918, with the establishment of Soviet power in Pskov, the school was closed. Nowadays the Pskov Industrial College is located in the premises of the former religious school.

Secondary specialized educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the city of Pskov. Opened in 1994. Trains clergy and clergy. The training corresponds to the programs of Moscow theological schools. The first graduation took place in 1997. The school has its own material and technical base, structures that are necessary for the implementation of the educational process. It employs 17 teachers, 15 of whom are clergy. On the territory of the school there are two churches: the Intercession of the Mother of God (an architectural monument of the 16th century) and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (an architectural monument of the 17th century), in the right aisle of which there is an assembly hall, and in the left there is a library. For the patronal feast of 1995, a fresco depicting the Mother of God was painted above the entrance to the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, which became a symbol of the school and a sign of Heavenly protection over it. In 1995, the Regional Administration donated warehouse premises, a boiler room, garages, a one-story administrative building previously occupied by the Elektrosvyaz joint-stock company to the school, and also donated a set of bells. The school has a carpentry workshop, a prosphora shop, a candle shop, a laundry and a bathhouse. The school accepts persons of the Orthodox faith aged 18 to 35 years with complete secondary education. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the Catechism, the Church Slavonic language, and other church subjects are studied. Studying at the school is full-time or in the form of external studies (free attendance). There is a Sunday school at the school. Teachers and graduates are engaged in missionary activities. In 1994 - 2001, the rector of the school was Father Roman (R.S. Gutsu), currently Father Vitaly (V. Gerusov). In the 2001/2002 academic year, 80 people studied at the school.

Source: Pskov Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief - A. I. Lobachev. Pskov, Pskov regional public institution - publishing house "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007 | →

Secondary specialized educational institution. It was opened on September 5, 1960. It was located on Pushkin Street. There were 50 students in the departments of piano, choral conducting, folk and string instruments. In 1961, the departments of wind instruments, solo singing and music theory were opened. Training was daytime, evening and correspondence. In 1968, the school moved to a new building on the banks of the Velikaya River with comfortable classrooms and a spacious concert hall with 600 seats. In 1998, on the basis of the methodological room of the school, a department for advanced training and retraining of personnel was opened, where more than 200 teachers from music schools in the region are trained annually. Currently, the school has six departments: piano, conducting and choral, music theory, folk, wind, and string instruments. Training is conducted on a full-time basis. Graduates receive qualifications as a teacher, accompanist, and creative team leader. Over the years of its activity, the school has graduated more than 2,500 specialists. In December 2000, the school was named after the composer N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Since the foundation of the school, the honored school teacher of the Russian Federation A. M. Chirkova, teachers V. I. Voichenko, N. P. Kozno, O. A. Smirnov, G. A. Petrova have been working here. Seven teachers are honored cultural workers of the Russian Federation: N. D. Gureeva, Yu. L. Merkulov, I. N. Kozno, V. V. Krichevsky, L. V. Kudryavtseva, L. M. Pavlova, B. V. Timofeev , and teachers T. A. Lapteva, A. Yu. Merkulov, L. N. Nikitina are members of the Union of Composers of Russia. The school's teachers work at the Pskov Regional Philharmonic. Six student groups have been created on the basis of the school, which perform concerts in the region and beyond. A children's philharmonic society has been created at the school. The school staff is the initiator of an annual festival dedicated to the Pskov balalaika virtuoso B. S. Troyanovsky, an open competition for young performers and a festival of Russian music dedicated to composers M. P. Mussorgsky and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, other competitions, Olympiads and conferences . In 2001, a branch of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov was opened on the basis of the school. The director of the school is B.V. Timofeev.

Source: Pskov Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief - A. I. Lobachev. Pskov, Pskov regional public institution - publishing house "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007 | →

Religious buildings for holding church services and rituals. At the end of the 19th century, there were 477 churches in the Pskov diocese. They were divided into a cathedral in the provincial city, city cathedrals in district cities, monastery cathedrals and churches, parish and cemetery churches, churches at institutions and military units, and house churches. The diocese had several hundred chapels - small churches without an altar or clergy, intended for public prayers, usually assigned to a nearby church. In the city of Pskov by 1917 there were 50 operating Orthodox churches and about 27 chapels built at different times. In Pskov and in the north of the province, churches from the 15th - 17th centuries were preserved, but there were also those erected in the 13th - 14th centuries; in the southern part of the province, most of the churches dated back to the 18th century - the century of the heyday of Orthodox religious architecture (out of 54 churches in Velikoluksky district, 35 were built in the 18th century). The architectural appearance of the temples was varied. In the northern part of the province there were churches built in the “Pskov style”. Its characteristic features are simplicity, fundamentality, almost complete absence of decorations, a massive porch, extensions to the main part of the temple, a free-standing belfry and other features. In the southern part of the province, churches were erected in the Baroque, Classicism, Empire, and neo-Russian styles. The materials for the construction of temple buildings were flagstone, brick, and wood. Temples were usually erected on elevated places and were connected with the surrounding landscape. Churches were built at the expense of the parishioners themselves. Often there was a wealthy landowner or nobleman who gave a significant amount of money, with the “care” of which the temples were built. Some churches had untouchable contributions made by parishioners, the interest from which went towards the improvement of the temple. Since the second half of the 19th century, government funds have been allocated for the repair of churches.
The clergy of parish churches usually consisted of a priest (less often two), sometimes a deacon, lower clergy: sexton, psalm-reader or sexton, as well as prosphora (a woman, often a widow of clergy, assigned to baking prosphora). The Pskov Theological Seminary trained priests for numerous churches in the province, and many lower clergy graduated from the Velikiye Luki Theological School. The salary of the clergy was paid by the state: the priest received an average of 140 rubles a year, the sexton - 40 rubles, the psalm-reader - 30 rubles, and the prosphora - 24 rubles, which was modest.
Each parish church owned church land, the average norm of which was 33 dessiatines. Part of the land was under the church, church houses and cemetery, and the rest was used for arable land and haymaking. The priest was entitled to 15, the sexton - 12, the psalmist - 7, and the prosphora - 3 acres of land. Sometimes the land was leased to the peasants of the parish, in other cases it was cultivated by the clergy themselves. Many churches had parochial schools. These primary educational institutions, run by parishes, played a large role in the spread of literacy in pre-revolutionary Russia. Schools, as a rule, were taught by teachers who had theological education, and the priest taught the Law of God. During church holidays and daily services, churches attracted large numbers of believers. This was facilitated by the miraculous, locally revered icons and other shrines stored in them.
After the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, most churches in the Pskov region were closed, the interior decoration was destroyed or looted, the premises of closed churches were used at the discretion of the party and Soviet authorities for organizing clubs, holding cultural events, and even for economic needs. Many ministers of the Russian Orthodox Church were accused of counter-revolutionary propaganda and sent to prison, exiled to correctional camps, and many were shot.
During the Great Patriotic War (1941 - 1945), many churches were destroyed and burned. In the 50s of the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church was again persecuted by the state. With the permission of local authorities, the ruins of temples were dismantled by residents for bricks or firewood. The number of operating churches also decreased. In Velikiye Luki before the October Revolution there were 16 independent churches, but now there are only two. In the Velikoluksky district, out of 25 churches, the remains of two have been preserved. On the territory of the former Velikoluksky district (part of the current Velikoluksky, Novosokolnichesky, Loknyansky and Kuninsky districts), out of 54, only 14 churches survived. In recent years, in the cities and districts of the region, the Russian Orthodox Church, authorities, entrepreneurs, devotees, and the population have been doing a lot to restore the old ones and build new churches, chapels and other religious buildings. Currently, there are 193 churches, 94 chapels and 9 monasteries in the Pskov diocese. Archbishop of Pskov and Velikoluksky - Bishop Eusebius.

Source: Pskov Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief - A. I. Lobachev. Pskov, Pskov regional public institution - publishing house "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007 | →

It developed from the mid-19th century. Sections of the railway lines were laid across the territory of the Pskov region: St. Petersburg - Warsaw (1857 - 1862); Pskov - Rizhskaya (1886 - 1888); Moscow - Vindavo - Rybinsk (1894 - 1915).
Initially, private railway construction developed. The first joint-stock company was the Main Society of Russian Railways. It was engaged in the construction of the St. Petersburg-Warsaw railway. The Pskov-Riga railway was built with state funds. Since 1895, railway construction in the Pskov province was carried out by the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway joint-stock company. He built the railway junctions Dno, Velikiye Luki, and Novosokolniki. In 1901, this company carried out the construction of the Moscow - Velikiye Luki - Kreuzburg - Riga line. In the fall of 1906 (after the construction of the Bologoye - Velikiye Luki - Volokovysk-Polesskaya railway line) Velikiye Luki station became a junction for the Moscow - Vindavo - Rybinsk and Nikolaevskaya railways. The last line built by this company in the Pskov province was the Gdov-Pskov-Polotsk rock railway (built since 1915 by order of the Russian government for the needs of the Northern Front). The railways on the territory of the Pskov province were built mainly by otkhodnik peasants, as well as the population of those villages near which construction was carried out. They used shovels, wheelbarrows, picks and crowbars. The team that was hired consisted of diggers, pilers, rollers, levelers, carpenters, and axemen. Payments were made to the entire artel. Fines, lack of living conditions, and epidemics made work on road construction very difficult. At the same time, advanced engineering solutions for that time were used. The following bridge engineers were directly related to the Pskov region: S.V. Kerbedz and D.I. Zhuravsky, according to whose designs railway bridges were built across the Velikaya River.
The railways built in the Pskov region in the 19th and early 20th centuries laid the foundation for the modern railway network and connected remote corners of the province with the central regions of Russia: the cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow with a reliable means of communication. The stations of Pskov, Dno, Velikiye Luki, Novosokolniki were at the intersection of several railways; junction stations were built in them, through which Central Russia and the Volga region were connected with Western cities and ice-free Baltic ports. Pskov railway stations played an important role in the development of the economy of the North-West and Central Russia. Their employees, drivers, conductors, as a rule, were competent, professionally trained, highly paid specialists. To train workers, craft courses were organized; to train railway workers, a technical railway school (now a technical school) was opened at the Velikiye Luki station in 1902.
A significant part of the railway workers took an active part in the revolutionary movement. Social-democratic groups of railway workers in the cities of Pskov, Velikiye Luki, Nevel, Toropets were the main base of the labor movement in the Pskov province. In 1917, Dnovsky railway workers tried to delay the train in which Emperor Nicholas II was returning from the city of Mogilev, where the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army was located during the First World War (1914 - 1918). The train was stopped on the railway tracks not far from the Pskov station. On March 2, 1917, here, in the royal carriage, the emperor signed a document on his abdication of the Russian throne. The First World War, the Civil War that broke out after it, as well as foreign intervention led railway transport and the economy of all of Russia to collapse. Pskov railway workers managed to restore transport links by 1925. Subbotniks, Sundays, and other public initiatives played a big role in this: transport weeks, transportation weeks, repair weeks.
In 1920, according to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, a state border was established on the territory of the Pskov province. For 20 years, Pskov railways operated in border mode. Railway workers participated in protecting the state border. Special railway guard units were created. The armored train "Steregushchy" controlled the railway line located on the territory of the Pskov border region. Technical reconstruction was carried out, the power of the locomotive fleet and the carrying capacity of cars were increased, new signaling and communication equipment was introduced, and the comfort of passenger travel was improved. In the 30s of the 20th century, a railway hospital was built in the city of Pskov, residential buildings and clubs were built at the stations.
During the years of the pre-war five-year plans, the length of railway lines in the region increased, and freight turnover also increased. By the beginning of 1941, along with the old ones, new powerful steam locomotives of the FD, IS, SO series, two-axle and four-axle freight cars and cars equipped with an automatic coupler were in operation. During the Great Patriotic War (1941 - 1945), railway workers fought at the front and fought the enemy underground and in partisan detachments. 18 Pskov railway workers became Heroes of the Soviet Union. After the liberation of the Pskov region from occupation, railway workers restored railway transport and railways.
In 1946, branches were organized on all railways of the country, including Pskovskoye and Dnovskoye (the latter later became part of Pskovskoye, like Velikolukskoye). In the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, on the Oktyabrskaya Railway, steam locomotive traction was replaced by diesel and electric ones. By the mid-70s, the Pskov branch included 26 business units, including the Pskov, Dnovsky, Velikoluksky and Novosokolnichesky railway junctions. In the 1980s, the junction stations Dno and Velikiye Luki were reconstructed, and the modernization of railway lines and the technical re-equipment of railway services continued. On July 31, 1996, the Pskov branch of the Oktyabrskaya Railway was reorganized into the Pskov subdivision of the St. Petersburg - Vitebsk Branch of the Railway. By 2001, it was abolished and reassigned to the St. Petersburg - Vitebsk branch of the October Railway. The total length of railway lines across the territory of the Pskov region is 1092 kilometers.

Source: Pskov Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief - A. I. Lobachev. Pskov, Pskov regional public institution - publishing house "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007 | →

In the Plyussky district. Opened in 1950 as rural vocational school No. 2. It trains agricultural machine operators, combine operators and drivers. Since its founding, it has graduated 13 thousand tractor drivers who work in the Pskov region and Russia. The school has the necessary material and technical base. Highly professional teachers and industrial training specialists work here. Among them are the first director L.I. Baranovsky, an honored teacher of vocational education of the Russian Federation, and L.G. Barkannikov, whose son E.N. Barkannikov heads the school.

Source: Pskov Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief - A. I. Lobachev. Pskov, Pskov regional public institution - publishing house "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007 | →

It began with the publication of the newspaper “Pskov Provincial Gazette”. In its first issue, dated January 5, 1838, “Statistical information about the city of Toropets” by Major General Esaulov was published. Then essays by Ivan Butyrsky about the cities of Velikiye Luki and Opochka, Akim Voina-Kurinsky - about the city of Kholm, Fyodor Studitsky - about the city of Pechora, Baron Fitingof - about the city of Ostrov were published here. However, no research on the history of the city of Pskov was published during the first two years of the newspaper’s existence. In December 1839, F. F. Bartolomei was appointed governor of Pskov. In March 1840, he appealed to the population with a request to send historical and economic articles for the newspaper. The first to respond was the priest of the New Ascension Church N.F. Milevsky. He copied ancient documents in the archives, which began to be published in the newspaper “Pskov Provincial Gazette” with his comments from August 1840, and from January 1841, his “Archaeographic description of the antiquities of the city of Pskov, preserved to the present day” was published on the pages of the newspaper. Since 1853, engineer-major I. F. Godovikov worked in the Pskov provincial construction and road commission. He compiled a two-volume “Description and depiction of the antiquities of the Pskov province” (partially published in 1880-1882 under the title “Brief historical review of the city of Pskov and its antiquities”) and “Atlas of drawings of the antiquities of Pskov” with an appendix of a plan of the provincial Pskov as of 1857 . Famous local history works by the teacher of the Pskov Theological Seminary A. S. Knyazev were “Index of sights of the city of Pskov” and “Historical and statistical description of the Trinity Cathedral,” published in 1858. The author of these works and his research helped Count M.V. Tolstoy in preparing the book “Shrines and Antiquities of Pskov” (1861). Since 1862, I. I. Vasilev taught at the Pskov Theological Seminary, who in 1866 went to serve in the Pskov Control Chamber. He owns the works of local history: “The Main Public School in Pskov and the Pskov Provincial Gymnasium” (1870), “Lon and the Pskov Governorate” (1872), “Bibliographical index of articles related to the Pskov Governorate. 1517-1887" (1891), "Archaeological index of the city of Pskov and its environs" (1898), "Traces of A.S. Pushkin's stay in the Pskov province" (1899) and others. In 1863, K. G. Evlentyev, who had local history experience, came to the Pskov province. While working as a teacher in the city of Ostrov, he also studied local history. In 1867 he moved to Pskov. Published archival documents and his own research: “Archaeological note about the Pogankin Chambers” (reprinted five times since 1870 with the appendix “Books of Pskovitin, posad trading man Sergei Ivanov, son of Pogankin”), “On an archaeological expedition to study the Pskov dungeons” (1873) , in newspapers - descriptions of walks around Pskov and trips beyond its borders. I. I. Vasilev and K. G. Evlentyev became the initiators of the transformation of local history from an individual activity of individuals into a joint work of like-minded people. The draft charter of the “Society of Antiquities Collectors in Pskov” prepared by K. G. Evlentyev was approved by 29 founders. In August 1869, the author of the charter applied to the Imperial Archaeological Society for financial support, but was refused. In November 1871, I. I. Vasilyov proposed, instead of an independent society, to create a special archaeological commission under the Provincial Statistical Committee and developed rules for its work. At the first meeting of the commission on August 4, 1872, governor M. B. Prutchenko and vice-governor A. M. Zhemchuzhnikov were elected as its leaders, and K. G. Evlentyev was elected secretary, appointing him as the curator of the future museum. The provincial leader of the nobility, Baron Fitingof-Shel, gave up two rooms in the house of the noble assembly (now Sovetskaya Street, 52) for the museum. K. G. Evlentyev created the museum’s exposition and began to receive visitors without a grand opening. The first advertisement inviting “those wishing to view the Museum of the Archaeological Commission” appeared in the Pskov Provincial Gazette on May 20, 1876. From this date, the existence of the modern Pskov Museum-Reserve is counted. In the same year, the museum was moved to the Government Offices building. For eight years (1872-1880), the archaeological commission published many of the mentioned works by I. I. Vasilyov and K. G. Evlentyev, local historians I. M. Pulkherov, V. A. Butsevich, N. K. Bogushevsky and others. In the summer of 1878, near Izborsk and Vybut, under the leadership of the chairman of the Moscow Archaeological Society, Count A.S. Uvarov, excavations of mounds were carried out in the presence of four grand dukes. At the same time, the count expressed the idea of ​​​​the possibility of creating an archaeological society in Pskov. In October 1879, at an emergency meeting of the archaeological commission, a draft charter of the Pskov Archaeological Society (PAS) was adopted and in July 1880 approved by the Minister of Public Education. In October 1880, at the first meeting of the PJSC, Governor M. was elected chairman of the society. B. Prutchenko, K. G. Evlentyev remained the curator of the museum. At the meetings of the PJSC, issues of protection of ancient monuments were discussed, and reports of its members were read. Since 1896, 12 collections of the society's works have been published. For many years, its active figures were the secretary F.A. Ushakov and the curator of the museum A. Zaborovsky. In 1898 - 1903, the chairman of the PJSC was the provincial leader of the nobility N.I. Novosiltsev. In March 1900, at an audience with Emperor Nicholas II, he managed to obtain consent to transfer the vast Pogankin Chambers to the museum. Since 1906, N. F. Okulich-Kazarin, the author of “A Companion to Ancient Pskov,” became the secretary of the PJSC and the curator of the museum. Before the revolutions of 1917 in Russia, two more local history organizations appeared in Pskov. Archbishop Arseny (Stadnitsky) opened the Church Archaeological Museum in August 1906 and in August 1908 organized the Pskov Church Historical and Archaeological Committee, which took over the Church Archaeological Museum. In 1910, a collection of the committee's works was published. In February 1916, the Pskov Provincial Scientific Archival Commission was inaugurated, releasing a collection of its works in September 1917. After the Civil War (1918 - 1920), the local history movement was led by teachers from the Institute of Public Education (IPE). In November 1920, they created a natural science circle, and in February 1921 they transformed it into the Society of World Science Lovers, led by Professor A.I. Dzens-Litovsky. In December 1921, the rector of the INO, V.K. Grinkevich, attended the All-Russian Conference of Scientific Societies for the Study of the Local Region, and in January 1922, under his chairmanship, the same society was formed in Pskov, which soon became known as the Pskov Society of Local History. In October 1923, the World Science Society and the ancient PAO joined it. The Local History Society began to work at the Provincial Museum, whose directors (E.M. Tikhvinsky, then A.K. Yanson) headed the Council of the Society. In 1924 - 1929, four collections of works of the society “Know Your Land!” were published. In 1927, the district department of public education (OkrONO) published the collection “Pskov Region”. The Pskov Alarm newspaper also published articles on the economy and history of the region. In 1930, the activities of local history organizations in the country were discontinued. In the 1950s, a literary almanac “On the Banks of Velikaya and Pskov” was published in the Pskov region, where local history material was also published. The main local history work was concentrated in the Pskov Museum-Reserve. Since 1980, scientific seminars “Archaeology and History of Pskov and the Pskov Land” have been periodically held here, and since 1986, annual scientific and practical conferences “Ancient and Modern Pskov” have been held with the publication of abstracts of reports of its participants. Since November 1992, the Velikoluksk City Local Lore Society has been operating. It holds scientific historical and local history conferences, participates in the publication of local history literature, and helps schools establish local history work. Since September 1994, the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute named after S. M. Kirov has been publishing the historical and local history magazine “Pskov”. Monthly local history inserts “Pskov Chronicles” and “Velikoluksky Chronicles” are published in the newspaper “Sterkh”, which are then summarized in collections of articles of the same name. Since the fall of 1999, a club of Pskov local historians has been operating at the Pskov Regional Scientific Library (headed by M. M. Mednikov). Local historians N.F. Levin, M.M. Mednikov from Pskov, N.D. Kazyulin and A.G. Zhelamsky from Nevelskoye, A.B. Stasyuk from Ostrovsky, brother and sister Kaidalov from Palkinsky, I.A. Tsvetkov from Pytalovsky, V.P. Konstantinov from the Strugokrasnensky districts, G.T. Trofimova, A.I. Sizov, V.V. Orlov, Z.P. Antonova from Velikiye Luki and other researchers of the Pskov region took part in the creation of those issued by 1100- anniversary of the first mention of Pskov in the ancient Russian chronicle of books, including in the “Pskov Encyclopedia” published in the anniversary year.

Pskov Theological Seminary is the oldest educational institution in the city. It was opened in the 20s. XVIII century through the efforts of Bishop Raphael (Zaborovsky) of Pskov and Narva. It was created on the basis of the Greco-Latin classes that existed since 1733, located in one of the aisles of the Trinity Cathedral in Pskov.

In 1738, a building was built specifically for the seminary next to the courtyard of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery. In the 1770s. the building was rebuilt after the fire.

In the 19th century To expand the premises of the seminary, Archbishop Eugene II (Kazantsev) applied to the commission of theological schools under the Synod with a request for permission to purchase from the wife of the inspector of the Pskov medical board Efim Yavorsky a wooden house on a stone foundation for 6.5 thousand rubles at the expense of the seminary. The commission allowed the purchase of the Yavorsky house and notified Archbishop Eugene about this.

For some time, the Yavorsky house satisfied the needs of the seminary, but in 1840 the question of constructing a new building arose again. Having received a construction permit, the leadership of the diocese turned to academician of architecture, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts A.F. to develop a project and estimate. Shchedrin. The construction of a new two-story building was carried out on the site of the former Yavorsky house. The building housed spacious, bright classrooms, well suited for classes. In the central part of the building there was a house church. At the beginning of the 20th century. According to the project of the St. Petersburg architect A. Pavlovsky, the old and new buildings were combined. During the reconstruction of the building in 1901-1904. the architect A. Pavlovsky built a building with the volume of a house church in the name of the Three Saints with a domed top (a double-height hall).

The dome over the seminary building was reminiscent of its home church in honor of the Three Saints. On December 14 (26), 1891, seminary teacher V.I. took monastic vows there. Belavin is the future His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon. In memory of this, on December 26, 1997, a memorial plaque was installed on the building. Even before perestroika, there was an inscription on the facade: “Lord! In Your light we have seen light.”

In 1918, the Pskov Theological Seminary was closed. In 1920-30 In the premises of the former seminary, the Marine Border Detachment of the OGPU was located, since the border with Estonia passed along the Pskov and Peipus lakes (as now), and the sailors of the Pskov Marine Border Detachment guarded the border. The house church was liquidated, and the appearance of the building changed - the church dome disappeared. During the war, the building survived, and the Pskov Pedagogical Institute settled in it. Now the former building of the theological seminary houses the Faculty of Biology of the Pedagogical University.

The building of the theological seminary is protected as a monument of federal significance (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 176 of February 20, 1995).