Abstract:
The study approaches the initiative of Bessarabian Zemstva, in the second half of
the 19th century, of creating in the province three elementary agricultural schools on
the estates of the monasteries dedicated to the Holy Places of the East. The authors fol-
low and analyze the sinuous trajectory of the materialization and institutionalization
of agricultural vocational education in Bessarabia after the reforms of Alexander II
of Russia, and identify the objective and subjective causes of delaying the process by
the central imperial authorities for more than 17 years, although agriculture was the
main occupation of the inhabitants from here, and Bessarabia has a very important
place in the Russian Empire’s trade in agricultural products.
