The System of Public Education in Tiflis Governorate in the Period 1802-1917. Part 3

The article is devoted to the development problem of the education system in the Caucasus at the end of the existence of the Russian Empire, i.e. during the reign of Nicholas II. The geographical range is limited by the territory of the Tiflis province. In this part, we consider the development of the education system before the adoption of the law from May 3, 1908, which changed the approach to the primary education system, so the chronological framework is designated by 1894-1907 years. The article analyzes statistical source data on the number of educational institutions and their "rank" level (primary, secondary, higher), the level of accessibility (for example, Tiflis province), as well as the problems and quality of the functioning of the educational system of the province in the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional, as well as the Russian-Japanese War and World War I. Such documents as the Complete collection of laws of the Russian Empire, acts of the Caucasian Archeographic Commission, the First General population census of the Russian Empire in 1897 (Vol. 18), "A set of statistical data on the population of Transcaucasia, with a complete alphabetical index of cities and villages of the region" (1894), Reports of the Trustees of the Caucasian school district for 1894-1907 and etc. were used as sources.