title: Education and culture of Bessarabia in the mid-19th century in the reception of Francois-Louis Bunyon
abstract: The objective of this article is to study the state of development of education and culture of Bessarabia in the mid-19th century through the research of the famous Swiss pastor, teacher and universalist missionary François-Louis Bunyon. The article suggests that Bessarabia is a unique region in which the cohabitation of various ethnic groups, on the one hand, contributed to the mutual enrichment of cultures, which ultimately led to the formation of a special supra-ethnic community called «Bessa
journal: Scientific Bulletin of the Izmail State University of Humanities Section «Pedagogical sciences»