title: EDUCATION IN THE UKRAINIAN FOREST-STEPPE PROVINCES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY
abstract: This chapter is devoted to the formation of the education system in a number of Left Bank and Right Bank Ukrainian lands in the first half of the XIX century. The purpose of our study is to study the educational policy of tsarism towards ethnic, religious and social groups living in Ukraine. General scientific and historical research methods were used, including a systematic approach, the principles of objectivity and comprehensiveness, historical-genetic and synchronous methods. Statistical dat