TRAIECTORIA SINUOASĂ A ORGANIZĂRII ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTULUI AGRICOL ÎN BASARABIA LA SFÂRŞITUL SECOLULUI Al XIX-LEA

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.