#Ученичество

| #Ученичество. 2024. Вып. 4 | #Apprenticeship. 2024. Issue 4 79 teaching of religion from 1932; Russian, German and French language were reduced by one hour per week in all grades; Latin is taught according to the plan from 1933 but was reduced the number of hours of natural history and mathematics. However, the Russian students were still overburdened mainly because of learning Yugoslav subjects. The school year was starting on 12th or 15th September, with the invocation of the Holy Spirit, and ended on 28th June, on St. Vitus Day. In addition to great holiday the students were not attend school at for Christmas and Easter holidays. After 1929, following the adoption of the Law for secondary schools, for enrollment in the first class of the Russian-Serbian Gymnasium, it was necessary to submit a birth certificate, testimony of finished elementary school with a certificate of having passed the entrance exam and registration with revenue stamp. Students of first middle grades should not be younger than 10 and older than 13, the fifth older than 17, and the eighth of 19 years. According to the Regulations on the collection of tuition fees, for enrollment was paying school fees, which was dependent on the parents' tax obligations, as well as a certain amount of money for the Fund of health care and for printing annual reports. Prior to Second World War in addition to this, the students also gave money to the Junior Order of the Red Cross , the school library, the Community of home and school and for the Fund in memory of the blessed King Alexander . Besides regular, there were private students, who were paying triple the tuition, and they were laid examinations in May. Students who on semester had more than half of the weak and bad score were distant from school, but during the month of June they were able to take class exams in all subjects. In case that there were no applicants for taking exam or to not pass the exam, they stay to repeat the grade. Russian-Serbian Women's Gymnasium was already established at the school year of 1920/21, when students from the Children's Home, which completed the fourth grade of elementary school, stayed in the House to continue their education. Until the 1926/27 school year, another group of Russian students, attended a mixed male-female, Russian gymnasium, which in those years worked in the building of secondary school. In the same year, with the replacement of the headmaster Pljetnov, the Russian-Serbian Female Grammar School separated pupils from the first to the fifth class, and the first to the eighth class remained to complete their education together with the boys. The newly established Russian-Serbian Female Secondary School in Belgrade was completed in 1929/30, when there were eight classes and the students could take the final examination. During the time when the Female Grammar School was under the auspices of the Home, it was headed by I.S. Lednjeva, and when it became an independent school, it was headed by Leo Suhotin, who was highly respected by students, teachers and parents. The curriculum in the Russian-Serbian Women's Gymnasium, as well as the Rules for admission to the gymnasium were the same as in the Russian-Serbian Men's Gymnasium. During the eight years of schooling they were taught the following subjects: Religion, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Latin, French or German, Yugoslav Literature, History, History of Yugoslavia, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Natural History, Science, Hygiene, Basics of State Law, Philosophy, Physical Education, Handicrafts, Singing and Drawing. Queen Maria, who sponsored the Gymnasium, donated the money for the education of poor students and visited the Gymnasium in April 1933 together with Queen Marie of Romania. Same as in the Russian-Serbian Male Gymnasium, students of Girl’s Gymnasium were also required to take an entrance exam, lower and higher course exam, which consisted of written parts – Russian, Serbian and Mathematics, and verbal exam from History and Geography of Russia and Yugoslavia. It should be noted that in the context