Kharkiv Collegium

The Kharkov Collegium also known as Kharkiv Collegium or Kharkiv College (from 1721 to 1726 Belgorod Slavic School) was an educational institution in the Kharkov Governorate in the Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine), which was founded in 1721, due to collaboration of Bishop Epiphanius of Belgorod and Prince Mikhail Golitsyn. As a great supporter of the Collegium was also known Prince Dmitry Golitsyn, whose monument stood in the central hall of the Collegium. The Kharkіv Collegium was closed in 1817 and was re-organised as the Kharkov Theological Seminary, a higher educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church, training clergy, teachers, scholars, and officials.