The article is devoted to a little-known page in the history of education of the XVIII century — projects for the creation of higher educational institutions on Ukrainian lands, which at that time were part of the Russian Empire. Contemporaries noted high public demands regarding education by representatives of various segments of the local population — nobility, philistinism, clergy. The main attention was paid directly to the university project in the city of Baturin in 1760. Its initiator was the last Hetman of Ukraine and Count Kirill Razumovsky, and the direct author of the document was Grigory Teplov. According to this document, it was planned to create a European-style university. In particular, German universities were chosen as a model for succession. Hetman K. Razumovsky also tried to adopt the experience of Moscow University, which existed since 1755. Financing of Baturin University was planned from several sources, the main of which were donations from the local maecenas, fees from mill owners and share of the income from customs duties. But this project like a number of ideas initiated by regional elites was never realized, mainly due to the peculiarities of the national policy of the Russian government.
Source: Degtyarev S.I. (2024). The Project of the Baturinsky University of Hetman Kirill Razumovsky. Bylye Gody. 19(2): 564-571
Source web-site: https://bg.cherkasgu.press/journals_n/1717235609.pdf
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