On 14 February 2013 the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova has organized the Scientific Conference "Bessarabian School". The event is part of a series of commemorative activities celebrating the 200^th anniversary of the opening of the Theological Seminary in Chisinau (31 January 1813), the first institution of theological studies in the area between the Prut and Dniester. The event has a much broader concept, involving the religious and secular education system in Bessarabia during Tsarist period in the whole. The conference aimed at updating the cultural program of the Bessarabian School expressed by Alexandru Hâjdău as the trustee of schools of the Hotin County in his famous speech "In memory of the old glory of Moldova" (on 25 July 1837), in which he more than anyone else was able to present a high conscious position of Bessarabian Romanians to learn from temporary owners of their land, not adopting their spirit, because temporary political boundaries during the tsarist period (1812-1918) could never become the spiritual barriers between Bessarabian Romanians and the rest Romanian world.

The event was conducted with the participation of historians, museum curators, teachers from the Academy of Orthodox Theology of Moldova. There were presented reports and communications on a wide range of issues related to the history of Bessarabian school in the 19^th century "under Russians": Foundation of the Chișinău Theological Seminary (Dr. Eugen Onicov); Periods of activity of the Theological Seminary, 1813-1913 (Dr. Veaceslav Ciorba); The Three Saints Theological Seminary (Victor Ceresău); Personalities who have worked in the Chișinău Theological Seminary (Onică Roman, Valentin Ceban, Tudor Gavriliță); Grigore Constantinescu, teacher of Romanian in the Chișinău Theological Seminary (Dr. Dinu Poștarencu), From the history of the library of Chișinău Theological Seminary (1813-1913) (Dr. Maria Danilov); Monastic education schools in Bessarabia of the late 19^th - early 20^th century (Dr. Silvia Scutaru); On the secular education in Bessarabia in the end of 1850s (Alexandru Argint); Education in Bessarabia between 1856 -1878 (Maria Tetiuhina); Development of the school system in the Bulgarian colony of Taraclia, the Akkerman County (1839-1918) (Ivan Duminică, The Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), etc.

Participants in the Scientific Conference Bessarabian School (to the 200^th anniversary of the founding of the Chisinau Theological Seminary) were invited by Dr. Eugen Sava, General Director of NMAHM, to submit their reports for publication in the journal Tyragetia, vol. XXII, 2013.