UNELE PROBLEME PRIVIND IMPLEMENTAREA LIMBII RUSE ÎN RÂNDURILE POPULAŢIEI DIN BASARABIA ÎN SEC. AL XIX-LEA (Pe marginea unui raport secret al guvernatorului Basarabiei Alexandru Constantinovici din 17 decembrie 1886)

Tatiana CHICAROŞ, Valentin TOMULEŢ Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Аннотация

SOME PROBLEMS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AMONG THE POPULATION OF BESSARABIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY (On the account of a secret report of the Governor of Bessarabia Alexander Constantinovici of December 17, 1886) In this article, based on a secret report of the Governor of Bessarabia Alexander Constantinovici of December 17, 1886, addressed to the general governor of Odessa H.H. Roop, the authors highlight some difficulties encountered by Russian imperial administration in the implementation of the Russian language among the population of Bessarabia in the nineteenth century. These difficulties included poor interest of peasants to study, the hardness with which they could be subdued to foreign influence, insufficient number of schools, especially in counties mainly with a Romanian population, low funds allocated by the imperial government in this area, weak learning by the population of Russian language etc. The governor also proposes a number of measures to address this problem: to increase the number of Russian schools in Bessarabia, to open parochial schools in those localities where there were no educational institutions, which should be maintained by state subsidies, to open a library in each school, to create choirs in Slavonic, to increase the amounts of allocations for the maintenance of schools subordinated to School Councils etc. Keywords: Bessarabia, Russian Empire, national colonial policy, Russification, denationalization, Russian school, Romanian language, Russian language.