№ 12. Составленный Преосвященным Филаретом проект всеподданнейшего доклада о возвышении штатов для духовно-учебных заведений, утвержденный Государем 23 Мая 1836 года

Draft report of the all-subject The states of theological schools, when they were transformed in 1808, compiled twelve years later in 1820, revised and elevated over a period of fifteen years, again turned out to require revision and adaptation to the needs revealed by changing circumstances and further experiences. The inadequacy of the current salaries for theological schools becomes obvious when they are compared with the salaries of secular schools. The lowest salary for a university professor is 4,000 rubles, not including 500 rubles for an apartment, while the lowest salary for a professor at a theological academy is 1,500 rubles. The senior teacher of the gymnasium in Kyiv is given a salary of 1,650 rubles, and a professor at the Kyiv Seminary now receives 600 rubles. When such limited salaries were assigned to employees at theological schools, it was assumed that they would receive benefits from salaries and income from places occupied in diocesan service. Experience has shown that only a few can use this benefit, and sometimes even the older ones cannot use it at all. Several of the current rectors of the seminary and even one rector of the academy do not manage monasteries, and, consequently, are only on a school salary. Monasteries that are more or less distant from the diocesan cities, governed by the rectors of the academy and seminaries, and therefore for a long time do not benefit from the presence and personal care of the abbots, are often subject to difficulties from this and require special available abbots. This reveals the need to bring school salaries to such a position that the rectors have the required maintenance even in the case when they do not have monasteries in their management, and if they do, then, out of duty of frugality, part of their school salary remains in the school economy. The salaries allocated for the maintenance of school hospitals, in themselves limited, turned out to be especially insufficient since, in view of the poor condition of the majority of the white clergy, seminaries were ordered to provide medical benefits and self-paid students of seminaries and the district and parish schools that were attached to them. Many proposals were received by the K.D.U. from subordinate places regarding the increase in salaries for school hospitals, as well as for the maintenance of houses. All these circumstances and considerations prompted K.D.U. to immediately begin raising salaries for the above-mentioned parts on the following rules: 1) In general, salaries should be raised by half of the previous level, with minor changes to suit the circumstances of the places and positions. 2) Salaries for newly appointed rectors should be made in full, if they do not use salaries or income from managed monasteries, and when they are entrusted with the management of monasteries, then from one third to half of the rector’s salary, at the discretion of the authorities, should be used to save the school. 3) Salaries for the maintenance of school houses and hospitals for schools that are not very crowded should also be increased by half as compared to the previous level, and for the most crowded ones should be doubled. 4) The salaries of superintendents of parochial schools, which are connected with district schools, should be excluded from the states; and the additional salaries of district school inspectors, made by special order, should be paid to the staff. When comparing the new states compiled in this way with the methods at the disposal of K.D.U., it turns out that, although the interest on the school capital already goes without a trace to the expenses for the maintenance of theological schools, for class salaries, for those with academic degrees from the white clergy, for benefits for meager clergy and other expenses with the help of the income received annually from the exclusive right to sell candles, the expenses expected by the new state can be covered. Therefore, K.D.U. is obliged to submit the newly formed states to the highest discretion of Your Imperial Majesty and to ask for the Highest command on them, so that, if they are awarded the Most Gracious approval, they will be put into effect from the second half of this year. You might be interested in: