STATE SUPERVISION AND TEACHING FREEDOM IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE LEICHOUDES BROTHERS IN RUSSIA IN THE LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURIES
The teaching activities of the Leichoudes brothers in Russia can be divided into several stages, each of which is associated with their teaching at the Slavo-Graeco-Latin Academy, the Italian school in Moscow, the Novgorod Graeco-Slavic school and the Moscow Greek school of Sophronios Leichoudes. In this article, based on the study of archival sources, an analysis of the measures of state management and control of Leichoudes schools is presented. The author describes the boundaries of the authorities' interventions in teaching, that determines the space of pedagogical freedom that remained for Greek teachers to implement the learning process in Russian schools. It is shown that this space was not limited to the framework of the educational process. As a result, Leichoudes were able to organize around themselves a group of the most capable students, who formed a scriptorium, and they activities were not limited to copying educational texts only.