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Leningrad theological Schools in the country, although its actual functioning in an abbreviated form continued until 1967. In 1961, at the height of the Khrushchev anti-religious campaign, the question of closing Leningrad theological schools arose. Due to the opposition of the Soviet authorities, only 8 people were able to enter the seminary in 1961, although 33 applications for admission were submitted. Metropolitan
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of Novgorod, in pursuance of imperial decrees, ordered to "establish for the common benefit at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, for the teaching of young children reading and writing, a Slavonic school". In the autumn of the same year, classes began. Initially, the school studied the
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laypeople, then as a circle with a workshop and a repository of icons that were restored and used for the needs of the academy, and later as a class with teachers who worked on a voluntary basis.
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