concept
Church Parish School
parish school
also: церковноприходская школа
A tserkovno-prikhodskaya shkola, a basic rural elementary school placed under the authority of the local Orthodox clergy rather than the secular zemstvo, part of a state policy (formalized by statute in 1884) expanding church-run education as a conservative counterweight to zemstvo schools; parish priests were expected to help staff and support such schools, often from their own scant means.
Reading notes
- A Nightmare §11 церковноприходскую школу
A tserkovno-prikhodskaya shkola (church parish school) was a basic rural elementary school run under the authority of the local clergy rather than the secular zemstvo, part of a nationwide push (formalized by statute in 1884) to expand church-run education as a conservative counterweight to zemstvo schools. The story's entire plot -- Kunin's patronage, his visit, the fatal misjudgment -- pivots on the funding of exactly this kind of school, which by law and custom the parish priest was expected to help staff and support out of his own meager means.