Note 6 — Chapter XLI · BLAGOVESTCHENSK.

Upon my return journey on the Amur, I met on the boat some of the students going back to Blagovestchensk after their holidays, and from them and their teacher I got the following information respecting their place of education. Priests’ sons are provided with education, food, and clothing free; other scholars pay for food and clothing. They are at the seminary ten months and a half during the year, and have the remaining six weeks for holidays. They have six classes, and stay two years in each, with four lectures daily, and read from eight till two. At the seminary at Blagovestchensk, in 1878, there were 50 students and nine professors, namely, of Latin, mathematics, Greek (no Hebrew), theology, philosophy, the Bible, Russ, Manchu, physics, music, etc. The students, I was told, on leaving, usually know a little Latin and Greek, and may learn modern languages; but this last, in Russia, is not compulsory.