NOVGOROD SEMINARY AND ITS TWO TUTORS WHO STUDIED ABROAD IN 1788
In 1770-1780s two tutors of Novgorod Seminary got higher education abroad - in the University of Göttingen (Magister E.Andreewsky) and Leiden University (Veniamin Bagriansky, its Rector in 1784-1788). Archimandrite Niсkolay Kizhdobriansky, born in “Austrian Serbia” and educated in different European academies, also taught there and was appointed Rector of Novgorod Seminary in 1788, when its educational programmes were reduced to 4 elementary classes.