Kirill Rossinsky. Rossinsky Kirill Vasilyevich. Rossinsky, Kirill Vasilievich

In the family of a Little Russian priest.

A strict lifestyle and eloquent sermons turned on Fr. Kirill received the attention of the diocesan authorities, and he was instructed to teach the sermons of newly appointed priests at the cathedral church.

On December 1, the highest permission was given to collected Fr. Kirill 45,000 rubles for the opening of a gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, which took place on May 17 of the year. Fr. Kirill. Through his efforts, a library was formed at the Gymnasium, where books were received from the military office, the Mezhigorsky monastery and other places; O. Cyril did not spare money on it: all the best that came out then - textbooks and special scholarly essays - everything was purchased for the library. In addition to the sciences laid down by the Charter, which included the fine sciences, the foundations of political economy and commerce, and with the city, the Greek language for those who wish. O. Kirill, in view of the special, as he said, the military nature of the population, reduced the teaching of military sciences: artillery and fortification; he also wanted to introduce the Turkish language to the course, but there was no suitable teacher for this.

In his activities, he was completely deprived of the support of the military office, and only Kharkov University, which was in charge of the school affairs of the Black Sea Territory, was the only accomplice and intercessor for his cause, repeatedly giving brilliant reviews about his activities. Two years (and) Fr. Cyril was pursued by slander for the fact that he was engaged in bribery and embezzlement of public funds; the investigation completely cleared him of these charges. Intense activity, in the absence of support, undermined the strength of Fr. archpriest; at the beginning of the year, he fell ill and, no longer able to carry out his official duties, asked the school committee of Kharkov University to resign. After many attempts to keep him, the committee finally ordered Fr. Kirill to hand over the position in the form of one of the teachers, but he did not manage to complete the handing over of the affairs and property of the gymnasium.

He passed away on December 12, he passed away. He was buried in the Ekaterinodar Resurrection Cathedral, on the left side of the altar. No monument was erected over his ashes, but on his portrait, which was kept in the Yekaterinodar District School, Fr. Cyril, words are written that signify his whole life: "Alienis inserviendo consumor" (lat. serving others, I burn).

O. Kirill Rossinsky was known as a writer and contributor to the journals "Competitor of Education" and "Ukrainian Herald". He was a member of the Kharkov Society of Sciences, which considered him among its external members in the department of verbal sciences, the Imperial Humanitarian Society, an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Free Society of Russian Literature Lovers.

Since a year, the Institute of International Law, Economics, Humanities and Administration of Krasnodar has been named after him.

Awards

velvet skufya, club
order of St. Anna 3rd degree (January 19, 1812, for services to the cause of education in the region)

Proceedings

In 1815, he compiled a manual entitled: "Short Rules of Russian Spelling" (twice published in Kharkov, dependent on the Black Sea Army, Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Dubonos); briefly, simply and clearly stated rules were drawn up so rationally that they could still serve usefully even now, at the same time they were a rare, if not the only phenomenon in Russia.

His speeches were published in 1818 ("Speech at a public meeting in the Yekaterinodar Uyezd School of 1816, July 30th. Kharkov) and in 1820 ("Speech at the opening of the Black Sea Gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, 1820, May 17th" t, St. Petersburg. and "Speech at a public meeting, at the end of a year's test, in the Yekaterinodar School", Kharkov) years.

He also sometimes took up versification.

Literature

Files of the Archives of the Holy Synod: No. 634, November 6, 1805; No. 755, June 23, 1806; No. 1014, December 14, 1806; No. 681, August 23, 1809; No. 57-1810; No. 1381-1821; No. 4367, February 11, 1812; No. 587, June 3, 1822;
"Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission", vol. VI, pp. 136, 137, 139-142, 145;
P. Koeppen, Materials for the history of education in Russia. issue II - Bibliographic sheets of 1825, St. Petersburg. 1826, pp. 586-589;
Proceedings of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg, part XII. pp. 3-32 ("Competitor", no. 10); part IX, St. Petersburg, 1820, pp. 109, 339-340; part XVI, St. Petersburg, 1821, pp. 109, 357;
Imp report. Public Library, 1896, p. 48;
"Journal of the Ministry of Public Education", part LXVI, for 1860, sec. V, pp. 1-12;
"Vedomosti of the Moscow City Police" 1849, No. 97, art. V. Zolotarenko;
Supplement to the circular on the management of the Caucasian Educational District, No. 10, 1876, pp. 1-48;
G. N. Gennadi, Dictionary, vol. III, M. 1908, p. 268;
Kuban Collection for 1913 (biography with portrait).

Used materials

A. Vinogradov. Rossinsky, Kirill Vasilievich. Biographical Dictionary of Polovtsev

Kirill Rossinsky, the enlightener of the Black Sea coast, was born (although there is information according to which the year of birth of Kirill Vasilyevich Rossinsky should be considered 1775). Kirill Rossinsky is from Novomirgorod, Kherson province; served as a military archpriest of the Black Sea Cossack army; the first present of the Yekaterinodar spiritual government from 1803 to 1825.

With the active assistance of Cyril Rossinsky, 27 churches were erected in the Kuban, village parish schools, a county school, a military gymnasium, a religious school were opened, and a military choir was created in Yekaterinodar. Kirill Vasilyevich prepared and published in 1815 a textbook for the public school - "Short Rules of Russian Spelling". “Giving all his strength and personal means to the cause of the development of education, helping orphans to get an education”, Kirill Rossinsky himself towards the end of his life “fell into extreme poverty and, at the request of the army, shortly before his death, he was assigned a cash allowance”. Kirill Vasilyevich Rossinsky passed away on December 12, 1825, was buried in the military cathedral (Illustration: Archpriest of the Black Sea Cossack Army Kirill Vasilyevich Rossinsky).

1794:

On this day, in the city of Ekaterinodar, it was decided to hold four fairs every year: on the Annunciation (March 25), on the Trinity (in June), as well as on the Transfiguration (August 6) and on the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos (October 1).

1813:

A decision was made to build new churches in Ekaterinodar - St. Catherine's "in the middle of the city" and St. Thomas in the cemetery.

And in June 1813, an agreement was concluded with the carpenter of the Minsk kuren, Pyotr Kucher, who undertook “to build in the city of Ekaterinodar on the square opposite the monastery courtyard a wooden chopped church according to this plan ... to finish this church: windows, shutters, throne, altar, choirs, pulpit, choirs, two tables, two lecterns, a bookcase and a chest in the sacristy to make, and he must completely finish with his own coat, except for the timber, the curtain, the iron for the roof, the glass for the windows and the nails for the shawls, which should be from society ...

I must do all this work with pure skill and so firmly that after three years there will be no damage or leaks in the roof, and if there is a leak or damage in it, I must fix it all with my own money.

For work, Peter Kucher was due "Four thousand two hundred rubles in money", of which three hundred rubles as a deposit, and "at the foundation of the church"- five hundred. In addition, during the construction it had to be supplied with provisions, including flour, millet, salt (5 pounds), lard (10 pounds). The contract also mentions ten bulls, fifty rams, three thousand rams, three buckets of fat and ten buckets of vodka ...

Under these conditions, the master was obliged “This work should be done as soon as possible and be sure to finish in a year, if there is no stoppage in the delivery of timber, money and provisions”.

And I must say "no stop" did not happen: the townspeople made donations of timber, bread and money ... In 1814, the Church of St. Catherine was consecrated (photo: Church of St. Catherine in Yekaterinodar).

The church was located on the site of the monastery courtyard, which belonged to the monks of the Ekaterinolebyazheskaya Nikolaev desert, on the square in the second quarter of the city, and was considered adjacent, that is, it did not have an independent parish, but was administered by the Resurrection Cathedral. Since 1844, the church of St. Catherine became a parish ...

1881:

Emperor Alexander III adopted a resolution “On the naming of Yekaterinodar and Maikop city, three Yekaterinodar elementary schools and 14 stanitsa and rural schools of the Kuban region "Alexander"; Maikop Women's College "Mariinsky"; a one-class rural school in the village of Yekaterinovskaya was given the name "Mikhailovskoye".

1903:

In the Kuban region, the positions of a regional hydraulic engineer, a regional mining engineer and two positions of junior agronomists were established, with the duty of caretakers of military free lands assigned to them. “When choosing candidates, preference is given to persons belonging to the military estate”, - we read in the archival document.

1907:

On this day, the newspaper "Kavkaz" (in issue 51) published an article that said that “A company of three people showed up in Yekaterinodar, choosing a rather strange, to say the least, profession - to walk the streets and stop passers-by shouting: “Hands up! Kiss us!”

And the Novaya Zarya newspaper told two cases of meeting with this "an original company consisting of three intelligent persons - an officer, an official and a civilian". One case - with students of the Yekaterinodar real school, returning at night along Krasnaya Street from the theater. Realists after the exclamation "Hands up!" stopped, and after the exclamation "Kiss us!"- fled, mistaking the screaming trinity for crazy. Another meeting with a young man who, alas, did not manage to escape "and he had to buy his freedom with a kiss..."

1913:

The grand opening of a new branch of the Black Sea-Kuban railway under construction, connecting Yekaterinodar with the village of Medvedovskaya, took place.

From the railway station Yekaterinodar station “The first test train set off: a service saloon car and four passenger cars”, - the newspaper "Kubansky Krai" reported.

1917:

Yekaterinodar Mayor Mikhail Skvorikov filed a written application to the Duma for his release from his post. His duties (before the elections) began to be performed by a certain N.G. Fil, and on March 22, Grigory Globa-Mikhailenko was elected the new mayor. As reported in the newspapers, "In this position, he was approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government".

1940:

The resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the construction of the Tshchiksky and Shapsugsky reservoirs and the embankment of the Kuban River" was issued.

The Tshchik reservoir, located on the left-bank floodplain of the Kuban River between its tributaries, the Laba and Belaya rivers, was built at an accelerated pace and by the end of 1940 was put into operation, and by November 1941 brought to design capacity. In the early 1970s, during the construction of the Krasnodar reservoir, the territory of the Tshchik reservoir became its eastern part.

The Shapsug reservoir in the left-bank floodplain of the Kuban, in the mouth of the Afips River, on the territory of the former Shapsug floodplains, was built much longer than the Tshchik reservoir (the war prevented its planned commissioning). Construction work was completed only in 1952. Before construction "Kuban Sea"- The Shapsugsky reservoir was often called the Krasnodar reservoir "Krasnodar".

1949:

The Krasnodar Territory Executive Committee allocated 186 hectares from the lands of the Klim Voroshilov collective farm in the Pashkovsky District for the construction of the Krasnodar Cotton Mill of the USSR Ministry of Textile Industry (KhBK).

1991:

On this day, an all-Union referendum was held on the question: “Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed”.

The results of the referendum in the Kuban were similar to the all-Union. The majority of citizens responded to the proposed question "Yes". In Krasnodar, for example, 68.51% of city residents voted positively (illustration: propaganda poster of the only all-Union referendum in the history of the Soviet Union, which discussed the issue of preserving the USSR as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics).

Also March 17, 1991 in parallel with the referendum on the preservation of the Soviet Union, an all-Russian referendum was held on the issue of: "Do you consider it necessary to introduce the post of President of the RSFSR, elected by popular vote".

And here the opinion of the Kuban people coincided with the average statistics for the country. In the regional center, the number of citizens who answered "Yes", amounted to 68.86%.

Only a few months will pass and in December of the same 1991, the Soviet Union will officially cease to exist ...

S.A. Razdolsky

By the beginning of the XIX century. In the spread of Christianity in the North Caucasus, the Orthodox Church experienced great difficulties. They were due to the lack of due attention to the issues of missionary work in the region on the part of the state. The constant interference of the secular authorities in the affairs of the church more and more turned the church organization into a kind of state apparatus. The frequent redistribution of the borders of the North Caucasian diocese led to the fact that the influence of the church on the life of the entire North Caucasus was actually eliminated. This explains the decision of the Black Sea Cossacks to choose the clergy from among themselves, and not to wait for appointment from the Astrakhan or Don dioceses. Weak support by the official church for the clergy of the North Caucasus has led to a reduction in the number of Orthodox churches in villages with a traditional religion. Orthodox influence on the Cossacks weakened. Many began to lean towards the doctrine of schismatics and sectarians who fled at the beginning of the 19th century. to the North Caucasus from the persecution of the authorities.

By this time, the North Caucasus was the center of sectarianism, with which the missionaries of the Caucasian diocese successfully fought. Their success is due to the deep conviction of Russian missionaries in the correctness of their activities: it was based on the desire for the spiritual transformation of a person, a change in his moral character. All this can be demanded from others only when the preachers themselves take care of the person, his personality, without resorting to violence in matters of religion. An example of missionary service is Archpriest Kirill V. Rossinsky: his activity, which began in the early years of the 19th century, left behind a deep memory among the Kuban Cossacks.

According to Shcherbina, “Archpriest Rossinsky was a rare personality for his time. It can be said that he stood head and shoulders above the administrative and service environment in which he had to rotate all his life. By education and intelligence there was no equal in the army. In energy and disinterestedness, he was also a unique public figure. Being a spiritual shepherd, he devoted his whole life and fortune to the cause of public education, and died unappreciated by anyone, positively a poor man" (1).

Rossinsky came to the Kuban at the age of 27, and from that moment she firmly and forever entered his life. Archpriest Rossinsky, noted by the military authorities as an honest, disinterested and active person, was more than once encouraged by spiritual leaders (2).

Thanks to his active missionary work on the territory of Ekaterinodar in 1813, a number of church buildings appeared: churches were built in the name of St. Catherine in the center of the city, in the name of St. Thomas the Apostle in the cemetery. In 1821, Rossinsky appealed to Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Golitsin, who at that time was in charge of spiritual affairs and public education in St. Petersburg, as well as the former president of the Russian Bible Society, for permission to open a Ekaterinodar and around the troops of the Black Sea, the partnership of the Bible Society, to assist in the supply of books of Holy Scripture "(3). Such permission was obtained, and he begins active work, involving in it more and more of his like-minded people. Thus, Rossinsky, as it were, created the clergy, closely connected with his parishioners, who could satisfy the religious needs of the population in education and cultural and moral behavior. “Not counting on the funds of the treasury and the troops, he, with a book and a mug in his hands, went around the army to collect donations. The pastor's labors were crowned with success: he built 27 churches with the funds raised and organized a military singing choir (4).

In the matter of education, Rossinsky did not always have the material support of the military authorities. But despite this, in 1806 he managed to open a district elementary school in Yekaterinodar. Rossinsky himself was appointed its overseer and teacher of the law. Good tutors were assigned to teach subjects from different cities. In 1811, gymnasium classes were attached to the school, which made it possible to open a gymnasium in the future. In August 1818, through the efforts of Rossinsky, a parochial school was opened, and its founder was appointed its first superintendent. For students of local schools, Rossinsky compiled the “Short Rules of Russian Spelling”. In 1818, the Kharkov University Printing House published the second edition of these rules, which was financed by the colonel of the Black Sea army. M. Dubonos. Simultaneously with the management of the clergy of the entire army, Rossinsky gathered around him people who were drawn to education and culture.

Rossinsky's contribution to missionary activity in the Black Sea army and among the indigenous population of the Kuban is priceless. Not without reason in 1901. in the note of "Kuban regional statements" dated April 16, the desire of the majority of Yekaterinodar residents to name one of the planned buildings of elementary schools after Archpriest Rossinsky is expressed.

Notes:

1 Gorodetsky B.N. Kirill V. Rossinsky: literary and public figures of the North Caucasus. Yekaterinodar, 1913.
2 Popko I. Black Sea Cossacks. SPb. 1858.
3 Potto V.A. Caucasian war. From ancient times to Yermolov. Stavropol, 1994.
4 Shcherbina F. A. History of the Kuban Cossack army. Yekaterinodar, 1910-1913, vol. 1-2
5 Shcherbina F.A. The origin of the Cossack elected clergy in Chernomorie. "In the Caucasus". Yekaterinodar, 1910.
6 Caucasian highlanders. Collection of information. M., 1992. T. 3.
7 Works of Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov. Ascetic preaching and letters" to the laity. SPb. 1905. Vol. 4.
8 Caucasian Diocesan Vedomosti. 1883. No. 1-4.
9 Stavropol Diocesan Vedomosti. 1880. No. 8.
10 Stavropol Diocesan Vedomosti. 1888. No. 18.
11 RGIA (Russian State Historical Archive). F. 796. Op. 126. D. 1101
12 RGIA. F. 796. Op. 127. D. 1938.
13 RGIA F. 796. Od. 148. D. 621.
14 RGIA F. 796. Op 158. D. 1854.
15 RGIA F. 250 .Op. 2, D. 249.
16 RGIA. F. 249. Op. I. D. 787.
17 “The petition of the Black Sea Cossack Host to the Archbishop of Astrakhan and the Caucasus, His Grace Abraham for awarding Cyril of Russia with a miter (Case of the military ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Host (1822-1824)” - RGIA, F.250. 0.2. D.249- L. 56.

“Delivering. Our military archpriest Kirill of Russia, serving at the Ekaterinodar Cathedral in the spiritual board since 1803, passes his rank with exemplary zeal, thereby acquiring excellent respect and gratitude from the entire army, exercising in his scholarship in preaching the word of God for the benefit of Christian souls, affirming that by his life and behavior, even less so by his writings published to the public, draws a special influence on himself. Since 1806, he assumed the position of superintendent at the newly founded local city of Ekaterinodar School, which, through his efforts and diligence, was transformed into a gymnasium, solemnly opened in 1820. - RGIA, F.250. 0.2. D. 189 (rare fund).

“... On September 6, 1805, for excellent diligence and work for the benefit of the church, he was most highly granted a purple velvet skufia. For diligence in collecting a significant amount in a short time in favor of public education and for an expression to accept the post of superintendent of the Yekaterinodar school, efforts to arrange this school, to fulfill this position without salary for 3 years, which he gave to the maintenance of poor students of the same School, Highly granted on January 14, 1806 by the Kamelavka. In respect for his excellent and zealous service, he was awarded the highest cross on September 8, 1810. For long-term and respectable service and zealous passage, as well as for honest behavior, he was awarded by the Most Reverend Archbishop on March 13, 1816 with a club for use during priestly services. - Kiyashko I.I. Military Archpriest Father Kirill of Russia. Ekaterinodar, 1913, vol. XVIII.

Problems of study and development of the Cossack culture. – Maykop, 2000.–112 p.

Rossinsky Kirill Vasilievich

Archpriest of the Black Sea troops, preacher; was born on March 17, 1774 in the city of Novomirgorod, where his father, a Little Russian by birth, was a priest. R. studied at the Novorossiysk Theological Seminary, where on April 20, 1795 he was initiated into a surplice to preach the word of God. At the end of the course here, R. entered the teacher of the informant class and the Law of God at the Novorossiysk Seminary, in 1798 he entered into marriage, on June 13 he was ordained a priest and, leaving the teaching service, on August 24 he was appointed a priest for the Novomirgorod Nativity of the Virgin churches. A strict lifestyle and eloquent sermons drew the attention of the diocesan authorities to R., and he was instructed to teach sermons to newly delivered priests at the cathedral church. In 1800, for his zeal and labors in fulfilling the assignments entrusted to him, R. was elevated to the rank of archpriest and transferred to the city of Taganrog, where his sermons were forced to speak of him as a rare occurrence in the church pulpit. On June 19, 1803, at the request of the entire Black Sea army, R. was appointed by Afanasy, Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav, to the city of Yekaterinodar as the military archpriest of the Black Sea army, and, at the same time, the first present of the Yekaterinodar Spiritual Board. Thanks to his outstanding mind, talent and extensive and, at that time, versatile knowledge, R. soon acquired great weight and importance among the Black Sea army and the population, which greatly helped him in his subsequent activities. Concerned about the small number of priests in the region (only 10 people) and not being able to call suitable persons from Russia, where there were exaggerated rumors about the disastrous climate of the Black Sea, R., with the consent of the military authorities, chose from local residents capable and truly disposed to the spiritual rank people, he himself taught them everything necessary and then sent them to the Ekaterinoslav Bishop for ordination. Since there were only four churches in the region (not counting the chapels), R. sometimes traveled around the region for two months "to beg for alms for the construction of churches." In the shortest possible time, R. pawned wooden churches in many villages for the collected sums, summoned craftsmen from Russia, and himself was in charge of the construction of churches. For all the time of his service in the Black Sea region, he founded and built 27 churches. For these merits, R. was awarded a velvet skufia and club.

Further activities R. almost entirely devoted to the cause of education in the Black Sea region, which had before him only one lower educational institution. In fairness, R. is still called the "enlightener of the Black Sea region." On the initiative of R., the school that existed in Ekaterinodar was on December 14, 1806 transformed into the District School; for the construction of a building for him and for its maintenance, the Military Chancellery decided to release an annual allowance of 1,500 rubles. Thanks to the efforts of R., appointed Superintendent of the School, it was filled with pupils in the shortest possible time; from Russia R. called good teachers, among whom he himself was an exemplary teacher of the law. In 1809, his wife probably died - and her death had a strong effect on R.; at the request of the protopriest archpriest I. Gozdava-Bochkovsky, he agreed to give him his place, and he intended to go, "in his loneliness and widowhood", to the monastery; The Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav did not agree to this combination, to whom he received from St. Synod petition of Fr. Gozdavo-Bochkovsky, - and R. remained in the Black Sea region. In 1811, at the request of R., the first class of the Gymnasium was formed in the County School, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the Gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, the opening of which was R.'s cherished dream. January 1812, Order of St. Anna 3rd degree. To increase the influx of students to the County School and, at the same time, to prepare a contingent of students for the Gymnasium, R. set out to open parochial schools. Not counting on the help of the Military Office, R. again turned to charity; having printed and distributed the Highest Letter of 1806 to the Black Sea Army for donations to the educational business, he collected the amount of money sufficient to open three schools, which he opened in Temryuk, Shcherbinovka and Art. Bryukhovetskaya. Overseers in these schools, R. chose people from wealthy and honorable residents, who, on the basis of the Charter, were supposed to take care of the external and internal welfare of the schools; he asked the Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav for permission to teach the Latin language and musical singing in schools for the children of clergymen, with the right to deduct a certain part of the mug collection for this. Soon R. opened the fourth School - in Hryvnia. Unexpectedly, in 1815, the Yekaterinoslav Archbishop forbade the use of church mug sums, demanding from R. a report on the expenditure of these sums; everything turned out to be correct, but the source of income dried up, due to which many teachers left their places. The time from 1815 to 1817 was the most difficult in the life of R. - the time of his struggle for the existence of schools. The school business was saved when In 1817, a philanthropist appeared - the Kursk merchant S. V. Antimonov, who donated 6,500 rubles, thanks to which the existence of open schools was strengthened. Taking care of the enlightenment and education of the children of the clergy of the Black Sea region, R. opened in August 1818 the Spiritual Parish School and was its first caretaker. In 1819 R. opened more schools in the villages of Riga, Temryuk, Medvedovskaya, Kushchevskaya, Leushkovskaya and Plastunovskaya. On December 1, 1819, the Highest permission was granted for the 45,000 rubles collected by R. to open a Gymnasium in Ekaterinodar; The very opening of the Gymnasium took place on May 17, 1820. The Highest appointed R. was appointed its first Director, in the absence of rules. Through his efforts, a library was formed at the Gymnasium, where books were received from the Military Chancellery, the Mezhigorsky Monastery and other places; R. did not spare money on her: all the best that came out then - textbooks and special scientific essays - everything was purchased in the library. In addition to the sciences prescribed by the Charter, which included the fine sciences, the foundations of political economy and commerce, and since 1821 the Greek language for those who wish; R., in view of the special, as he said, the military nature of the population, reduced the teaching of military sciences: artillery and fortification; he also wanted to introduce the Turkish language to the course, but there was no suitable teacher for this. In his activities, R. was completely deprived of the support of the Military Chancellery, and only Kharkov University, which was in charge of the school affairs of the Black Sea Territory, was the only accomplice and intercessor for R., repeatedly giving brilliant reviews about his activities. For two years (1821 and 1822), R. was pursued by slander because he was engaged in bribery and embezzlement of public sums; the investigation completely cleared him of these charges. Intense activity, in the absence of support, undermined R.'s strength; at the beginning of 1825, he fell ill and, no longer able to carry out his official duties, asked the school committee of Kharkov University to resign; after many attempts to keep him, the Committee finally ordered R. to hand over the position in the form of one of the teachers; as R. was in a hurry to complete the delivery of the deeds and property of the Gymnasium, the delivery was slow due to his illness, and without completing the delivery, on December 12, 1825, he died.

R. was known as a writer and contributor to the journals "Competitor of Education" and "Ukrainian Herald". He was a member of the Kharkov Society of Sciences, which considered him among its external members in the department of verbal sciences, the Imperial Humanitarian Society, an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Free Society of Russian Literature Lovers. "All these Societies, electing him as their members, hastened to express both his talents, and zeal for the sciences, and all generally useful intentions, high reverence and respect." In 1815, R. compiled a manual entitled: "Short Rules of Russian Spelling" (twice published in Kharkov, dependent on the Black Sea troops, Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Dubonos); briefly, simply and clearly stated rules were drawn up so rationally that they could still serve usefully even now, at the same time they were a rare, if not the only phenomenon in Russia. He also sometimes took up versification. His speeches were published in 1818 (“Speech at a public meeting in the Yekaterinodar Uyezd School of 1816 on July 30th. Kharkov) and in 1820 (“Speech at the opening of the Black Sea Gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, 1820, May 17th” t, St. Petersburg. and "Speech at a public meeting, at the end of a year's trial, in the Ekaterinodar School", Kharkov) years. R. was buried in the Ekaterinodar Resurrection Cathedral, on the left side of the altar. No monument was erected over his ashes, but on his portrait, stored in the Ekaterinodar District The school, with R.'s own hand, words were written that mark his whole life: “Alienis inserviendo consumor.” In memory of R., a free city reading room is now open in Ekaterinodar.

Files of the Archives of the Holy Synod: No. 634, November 6, 1805; No. 755, June 23, 1806; No. 1014, December 14, 1806; No. 681, August 23, 1809; No. 57-1810; No. 1381-1821; No. 4367, February 11, 1812; No. 587, June 3, 1822; "Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission", vol. VI, pp. 136, 137, 139-142, 145; P. Koeppen, Materials for the history of education in Russia. issue II - Bibliographic sheets of 1825, St. Petersburg. 1826, pp. 586-589; Proceedings of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg, part XII. pp. 3-32 ("Competitor", no. 10); h. IX, St. Petersburg, 1820, pp. 109, 339-340; part XVI, St. Petersburg, 1821, pp. 109, 357; Imp report. Public Library, 1896, p. 48; "Journal of the Ministry of National Education" LXVI, for 1860, sec. V, pp. 1-12; "Vedomosti of the Moscow City Police" 1849, No. 97, art. V. Zolotarenko; Supplement to the circular on the management of the Caucasian Educational District, No. 10, 1876, pp. 1-48; G. N. Gennadi, Dictionary, vol. III, M. 1908, p. 268; Kuban Collection for 1913 (biography with portrait).

A. Vinogradov.

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- Archpriest of the Black Sea troops, preacher; was born on March 17, 1774 in the city of Novomirgorod, where his father, a Little Russian by birth, was a priest.
R. studied at the Novorossiysk Theological Seminary, where on April 20, 1795 he was initiated into a surplice to preach the word of God. At the end of the course here, R. entered the teacher of the informant class and the Law of God at the Novorossiysk Seminary, in 1798 he entered into marriage, on June 13 he was ordained a priest and, leaving the teaching service, on August 24 he was appointed a priest for the Novomirgorod Nativity of the Virgin churches.
A strict lifestyle and eloquent sermons drew the attention of the diocesan authorities to R., and he was instructed to teach sermons to newly appointed priests at the cathedral church.
In 1800, for his zeal and labors in fulfilling the assignments entrusted to him, R. was elevated to the rank of archpriest and transferred to the city of Taganrog, where his sermons were forced to speak of him as a rare occurrence in the church pulpit. On June 19, 1803, at the request of the entire Black Sea army, R. was appointed by Afanasy, Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav, to the city of Yekaterinodar as the military archpriest of the Black Sea army, and, at the same time, the first present of the Yekaterinodar Spiritual Board.
Thanks to his outstanding mind, talent and extensive and, at that time, versatile knowledge, R. soon acquired great weight and importance among the Black Sea army and the population, which greatly helped him in his subsequent activities.
Concerned about the small number of priests in the region (only 10 people) and not being able to call suitable persons from Russia, where there were exaggerated rumors about the disastrous climate of the Black Sea, R., with the consent of the military authorities, chose from local residents capable and truly disposed to the spiritual rank people, he himself taught them everything necessary and then sent them to the Ekaterinoslav Bishop for ordination.
Since there were only four churches in the region (not counting the chapels), R. sometimes traveled around the region for two months "to beg for alms for the construction of churches." In the shortest possible time, R. pawned wooden churches in many villages for the collected sums, summoned craftsmen from Russia, and himself was in charge of the construction of churches.
For all the time of his service in the Black Sea region, he founded and built 27 churches.
For these merits, R. was awarded a velvet skufia and club.
Further activities R. almost entirely devoted to the cause of education in the Black Sea region, which had before him only one lower educational institution.
In fairness, R. is still called the "enlightener of the Black Sea region." On the initiative of R., the school that existed in Ekaterinodar was on December 14, 1806 transformed into the District School; for the construction of a building for him and for its maintenance, the Military Chancellery decided to release an annual allowance of 1,500 rubles.
Thanks to the efforts of R., appointed Superintendent of the School, it was filled with pupils in the shortest possible time; from Russia R. called good teachers, among whom he himself was an exemplary teacher of the law.
In 1809, his wife probably died, and her death had a strong effect on R.; at the request of the protopriest I. Gozdava-Bochkovsky, he agreed to give up his place to him, and he intended to go, "in his loneliness and widowhood", to the monastery; The Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav did not agree to this combination, to whom he received from St. Synod petition of Fr. Gozdavo-Bochkovsky, - and R. remained in the Black Sea region.
In 1811, at the request of R., the first class of the Gymnasium was formed in the County School, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the Gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, the opening of which was R.'s cherished dream. January 1812, Order of St. Anna 3rd degree.
To increase the influx of students to the County School and, at the same time, to prepare a contingent of students for the Gymnasium, R. set out to open parochial schools. Not counting on the help of the Military Office, R. again turned to charity; having printed and distributed the Highest Letter of 1806 to the Black Sea Army for donations to the educational business, he collected the amount of money sufficient to open three schools, which he opened in Temryuk, Shcherbinovka and Art. Bryukhovetskaya.
Overseers in these schools, R. chose people from wealthy and honorable residents, who, on the basis of the Charter, were supposed to take care of the external and internal welfare of the schools; he asked the Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav for permission to teach the Latin language and musical singing in schools for sacred children and clergy, with the right to deduct a certain part of the mug collection for this. Soon R. opened the fourth School - in Hryvnia.
Unexpectedly, in 1815, the Yekaterinoslav Archbishop forbade the use of church mug sums, demanding from R. a report on the expenditure of these sums; everything turned out to be correct, but the source of income dried up, due to which many teachers left their places. The time from 1815 to 1817 was the most difficult in the life of R. - the time of his struggle for the existence of schools. The school business was saved when in 1817 a philanthropist, the Kursk merchant S.V. Antimonov, appeared, who donated 6,500 rubles, thanks to which the existence of open schools was strengthened. Taking care of the enlightenment and education of the children of the clergy of the Black Sea region, R. opened in August 1818 the Spiritual Parish School and was its first caretaker.
In 1819 R. opened more schools in the villages of Riga, Temryuk, Medvedovskaya, Kushchevskaya, Leushkovskaya and Plastunovskaya. On December 1, 1819, the Highest permission was granted for the 45,000 rubles collected by R. to open a Gymnasium in Ekaterinodar; The very opening of the Gymnasium took place on May 17, 1820. The Highest appointed R. was appointed its first Director, in the absence of rules. Through his efforts, a library was formed at the Gymnasium, where books were received from the Military Chancellery, the Mezhigorsky Monastery and other places; R. did not spare money on her: all the best that came out then - textbooks and special scientific essays - everything was purchased in the library.
In addition to the sciences prescribed by the Charter, which included the fine sciences, the foundations of political economy and commerce, and since 1821 the Greek language for those who wish;
R., in view of the special, as he said, the military nature of the population, reduced the teaching of military sciences: artillery and fortification; he also wanted to introduce the Turkish language to the course, but there was no suitable teacher for this.
In his activities, R. was completely deprived of the support of the Military Chancellery, and only Kharkov University, which was in charge of the school affairs of the Black Sea Territory, was the only accomplice and intercessor for R., repeatedly giving brilliant reviews about his activities.
For two years (1821 and 1822), R. was pursued by slander because he was engaged in bribery and embezzlement of public sums; the investigation completely cleared him of these charges.
Intense activity, in the absence of support, undermined R.'s strength; at the beginning of 1825, he fell ill and, no longer able to carry out his official duties, asked the school committee of Kharkov University to resign; after many attempts to keep him, the Committee finally ordered R. to hand over the position in the form of one of the teachers; no matter how R. was in a hurry to complete the delivery of the deeds and property of the Gymnasium, the delivery was slow due to his illness, and without completing the delivery, on December 12, 1825, he died.
R. was known as a writer and contributor to the journals "Competitor of Education" and "Ukrainian Herald". He was a member of the Kharkov Society of Sciences, which considered him among its external members in the department of verbal sciences, the Imperial Humanitarian Society, an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Free Society of Russian Literature Lovers. “All these Societies, electing him as their members, hastened to express both his talents, and zeal for the sciences, and all generally useful intentions, high reverence and respect.” In 1815, R. compiled a manual entitled: “Short Rules of Russian Spelling” (twice published in Kharkov, dependent on the Black Sea troops of Lieutenant Colonel S. M. Dubonos); briefly, simply and clearly stated rules were drawn up so rationally that they could still serve usefully even now, at the same time they were a rare, if not the only phenomenon in Russia.
He also sometimes took up versification.
His speeches were published in 1818 (“Speech at a public meeting in the Yekaterinodar Uyezd School of 1816 July 30th. Kharkov) and in 1820 (“Speech at the opening of the Black Sea Gymnasium in Yekaterinodar, 1820, May 17th” t, St. Petersburg. and "Speech at a public meeting, at the end of a year's trial, in the Yekaterinodar School", Kharkov) years. R. was buried in the Ekaterinodar Resurrection Cathedral, on the left side of the altar.
No monument was erected over his ashes, but on his portrait, kept in the Yekaterinodar District School, R.'s own hand wrote the words that mark his whole life: "Alienis inserviendo consumor." In memory of R., a free city reading room is now open in Yekaterinodar.
Files of the Archives of the Holy Synod: No. 634, November 6, 1805; No. 755, June 23, 1806; No. 1014, December 14, 1806; No. 681, August 23, 1809; No. 57-1810; No. 1381-1821; No. 4367, February 11, 1812; No. 587, June 3, 1822; "Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission", vol. VI, pp. 136, 137, 139-142, 145; P. Koeppen, Materials for the history of education in Russia. issue II - Bibliographic sheets of 1825, St. Petersburg. 1826, pp. 586-589; Proceedings of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg, part XII. pp. 3-32 (“Competitor”, No. 10); part IX, St. Petersburg, 1820, pp. 109, 339-340; part XVI, St. Petersburg, 1821, pp. 109, 357; Imp report. Public Library, 1896, p. 48; "Journal of the Ministry of Public Education", part LXVI, for 1860, sec. V, pp. 1-12; "Vedomosti of the Moscow City Police" 1849, No. 97, art. V. Zolotarenko;
Supplement to the circular on the management of the Caucasian Educational District, No. 10, 1876, pp. 1-48; G. N. Gennadi, Dictionary, vol. III, M. 1908, p. 268; Kuban Collection for 1913 (biography with portrait).
A. Vinogradov. (Polovtsov) Rossinsky, Kirill Vasilievich (1774-1825) - preacher, archpriest of the Black Sea army.
Some of his speeches were published by Kharkov University (Kharkov, 1810, 1818, 1820). (Brockhaus)