Thesis is developed to questions concerning the role of private benefactors and charities in formation and support of initial, secondary and higher educational institution in Ukraine in second half of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries. For the first time the main forms of rendering the charitable assistance to educational institutions have been analyzed in this thesis. Reasons of conversion from individual patronage to forming civilian and institutions of tutelage have been clarified here. General and specific principles of activity of charitable institutions and private benefactors on the educational base have been shown in this scientific work. The tendencies of development of charitable institutions in Ukraine have been designated here. Connection between changes in civilian-political life and activity of rendering the charitable assistance to educational institutions have been determined as well. Unfamiliar earlier archive’s materials have been used for scientific work.

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