The estimation of K. V. Kharlampovych’s works dedicated to the state and development of Orthodox schools in the territory of Rzeczpospolita Polska by his contemporaries

In this article the scientific achievements of K.V.Kharlampovych dedicated to the study of the schooling and education in the 16th and early 17th centuries in Ukrainian and Belarussian lands as a part of Rzeczpospolita Polska have been analyzed. The article focuses on the development of brotherhoods’ schools, as well as the range of problems which were investigated by the historian within the mentioned schools. The scientific interest in the works K. V. Kharlampovych was shown by the famous contemporary scholars: Ivan Franko, Jan Marek Anthony Gizhitsky, A. Azukleza, S. Golubeva, Yu. Sit sinsky, I. Lyubarsky, S. Runkevich, N. Popov, F. Titov, P. Zhukovych, P. Nikolaevsky. Concerning the reviews of the mentioned scientists of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires on the works of K.V. Kharlampovich, the author pays attention to their comments on some disputable issues, but points out that the named reviewers had a high opinion for the scientific studies of the scientist on the whole, appreciating their high scientific level and the involvement of a large number of unknown previously archival documents into the scientific circulation. The author has demonstrated the knowledge of the subject and his appreciation of K.V.Kharlampovych’s role in the investigation of the schooling.