The System of Public Education in Tiflis Governorate in the Period 1802–1917. Part 1

The article is devoted to the problem of the development of the education system of the Russian Empire during the accession and development of the Caucasus region. The geographical scope is limited to the territory of the Tiflis Governorate, chronological – 1872–1894, that is, the first stage of the period of completion of the process of integration of educational institutions of the Caucasus into the public education system of the Russian Empire. This article analyzes the statistical source data on the number of educational institutions and their “rank” level (primary, secondary, higher), accessibility level (using the example of the Tiflis Governorate) and real “vsesoslovnosti” (considering not only the state’s position, especially during the so-called “counter-reforms”, but also the mentality of the population of the Caucasus), problems and the quality of the functioning of the educational system of the province in general, and of individual educational institutions in particular. The sources included the documents such as the Complete collection of laws of the Russian Empire, Acts of the Caucasus archaeographic commission, the First general census of the Russian Empire in 1897 (v. 18), “Collection of Data on the Caucasus” (1871–1885), “Statistical Code data on the population of Transcaucasia, with a complete alphabetical index of cities and villages of the region” (1894), “Proceedings of the activities and state of our educational institutions” (1870), etc.