From Seventeenth-Century School Initiatives to the Moscow Theological Academy: Evolution of a Higher Education Model and Its Legal Regulation

The article examines the protracted maturation of the Russian model of higher education and the institutionalization of the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy as an all-estate center for training personnel for the state and the Church. It analyzes how, amid competing intellectual currents, curricula, judicial autonomy, and other elements of legal status were shaped to ensure continuity and resilience. The study emphasizes the linkage between national traditions and East-Slavic and European patterns while maintaining the primacy of national interests. It argues that these solutions formed a legal and organizational foundation for strengthening Russian scholarship and education, with broad prospects for further national development.