Clergy-Educators of Siberia in the Russian Empire of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries

The article is devoted to the issue of the participation of clergy in the education of the population of the Russian Empire on the territory of Siberia during the second half of the 19th -early 20th centuries.Publications from the newspaper "Yenisei Diocesan Gazette" were selected as representative material for this topic.During the study, detailed attention was paid to such representative materials as publications of teacher I.T. Savenkov and a detailed report on the activities of the diocese in the field of public education for 1889.The study confirms the importance of the clergy in education: in addition to missionary activities to disseminate Christian Orthodox teachings in the northern and Siberian territories of the Russian Empire, Orthodox clergy carried out other important forms of social activity.The materials from the publication of the "Yenisei Diocesan Gazette" are considered in the article as a historical source that reveals the features of the educational activities of clergy in the territory of Siberia at the end.XIX -early XX centuries in the context of the history of the development of public education in the Yenisei province.Orthodox clergy not only organized the creation of schools and provided them with literature, but also took on the duties of teachers of even disciplines of secular knowledge, often free of charge, thereby spreading the ideals of Christian charity in their practical affairs.