Legal Status and Ideological Foundations of the First Russian Institution of Higher Learning: Toward a History of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy

The article examines the legal status and ideological foundations of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy as the first stable form of higher learning in Russia. It analyzes the prerequisites for the Academy’s establishment, its institutional status, key elements of internal governance, and the relationship between the public purposes of the state and the Church and the autonomy of the educational corporation. The study further explores how ideological disagreements over the aims of education and the language-and-curriculum model influenced the Academy’s development and successive transformations of its organizational framework. The article concludes that the Academy played a significant role in shaping Russia’s national tradition of higher education, strengthening legal order, and ensuring continuity of state–church orientations in the educational sphere.