Keyword: «reading people»

The paper is devoted to the organization of popular lectures in the Vyatka province in the early XX century. To allow readings the local authorities required to abide by certain conditions. The Orthodox Church had arranged the conversations and moral public readings. The St. Synod decided to use the oral reading and conversation as a mean of disciple seminaries. Zemstvo of Vyatka actively participated in the organization of secular talks and lectures.