The Chișinău Diocesan Girls' School opened its doors on May 3, 1864, addressing a pressing need: in Bessarabia there were no institutions dedicated to the education of clergy's daughters. According to the 1864 circular, teaching was conducted in the Romanian language, a provision applied throughout the diocese. The school's first headmistress was Anastasia Rizo, of noble origin, invited by Archbishop Antonie.
The curriculum, approved by the Ministry of Public Education and the Chișinău Diocese, combined theoretical subjects with practical training. Students studied religion, reading and writing in Romanian, Slavonic, and Russian, arithmetic and exercises in calculation, world history and geography. The program was complemented by church singing and practical skills such as sewing, embroidery, knitting, as well as household management - baking bread and prosphora, preparing meals and preserves, caring for livestock, and cultivating gardens.
The composite, taken in 1911 at the studio of Z. N. Sumovski in Chișinău, depicts 29 graduates and 13 teachers. At the center are portraits of Bishop Serafim (Ciciagov), headmistress N. R. Mihelson, teacher V. E. Bejerian, and priests F. Ghiliarov and P. Jurikas. Among the teaching staff was Paraskovia Vasilievna Cuciurenko, a calligraphy teacher for 37 years, who in 1911 became senior educator and assistant headmistress. For her dedication, she was awarded the gold medal "For Long Service."
On the reverse of the vignette is a label from the store and workshop of frames, paintings, mirrors, and window glass owned by A. D. Kon'gova, Chișinău, Gogol Street no. 37, near the State Bank.
This graduation composite was donated at the end of 2025 to the National Museum of History of Moldova by the Dadiștian family from Drochia.
Владимир Белозор, Александр Могилов, Сергей Скорый
Early Iron Age complexes near Kozlov village in the Middle Dniester area
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. IV [XIX], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
The article is devoted to the specialist publication of materials from the Early Iron Age settlement near Kozlov village in Mogyliv-Podilskyj district of the Vinnitsa region, investigated in 1987 by the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology AS USSR. Remains of the dwellings, household pits and a context connected to the treatment of flint were excavated. The basic category of finds from a settlement are the ceramics, the finds of complete pottery vessels being rare. Metallic objects are not present, which may partly have been compensated by the wide distribution of the flints. The analysis of the inventory allows us to date the settlement back to the end of the pre-scythian - the beginning of scythian time.
List of illustrations Fig. 1. General plan of Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 2. Plan of excavations from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 3. Plan and section of dwelling no. 1. Fig. 4. Plans and sections of pits from Kozlov II settlement: 1 - pit no. 2; 2 - pit no. 3; 3 - pit no. 5; 4 - pit no. 6. Fig. 5. Furnaces from Kozlov II settlements. Fig. 6. Ceramics from Kozlov II (1-4, 13-22) and Kozlov I (5-12) settlements. Fig. 7. Ceramics from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 8. Inventory of Kozlov II settlement: 1-40, 42-44 - ceramics, 41 - stone. Fig. 9. Ceramics from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 10. Ceramics from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 11. Ceramics from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 12. Ceramics from Kozlov II settlement. Fig. 13. Inventory of Kozlov II settlement: 1-17, 19, 21-25 - stone; 18, 20 - ceramics; 26 - bone; 24 - bronze. Fig. 14. Main cultural-chronological indicators from early Scythian monuments from Middle Dniester region: 1 - Lenkovcy, tumulus; 2 - Sokirincy; 3, 4 - Perebykovcy, tumulus no. 2; 5-12 - Kruglik, tumulus no. 1; 13-22, 25 - Šutnovcy, tumulus no. 3; 23, 26 - Ivane-Puste; 24, 28 - Zales’e; 27 - Loevcy, tumulus no. 1; 29 - Nivra; 30, 31 - Teklivka, tumulus no. 3; 32 - Bratyšev, tumulus no. 4. 1-4, 22, 23, 25, 27 - iron; 3-21, 24, 30-32 - bronze; 26, 28, 29 - bone (1 - after A.I. Meljukova; 2, 14-22, 25 - after A.F. Gucal; 3-12 - after G.I. Smirnova; 23, 24, 26 - after O.D. Ganina; 27 - after L.I. Krušel’nickaja; 28 - after A.D. Mogilov; 29 - after M.S. Bandrivskij; 30, 31 - after A.F. Gucal, V.A. Gucal, V.P. Megej, A.D. Mogilov; 32 - after T. Sulimirskij).
Сергей Скорый
The new find of a bronze cast helmet of the Scythian Archaic period in Kuban
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XVIII [XXXIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
The Chișinău Diocesan Girls' School opened its doors on May 3, 1864, addressing a pressing need: in Bessarabia there were no institutions dedicated to the education of clergy's daughters...
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
