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The Czech School Museum has recreated the conditions for teaching children during the Czech period.
In early May 1919, the entire territory of Transcarpathia was occupied by bourgeois Czechoslovakia and boyar Romania. According to the Saint-Germain Treaty of September 10, 1919, Transcarpathia became part of Czechoslovakia under the name Subcarpathian Rus. In the Czech period in Kolochava, the greatest growth in the cultural and educational level of village development was distinguished.
The Czechoslovak government and authorities of Subcarpathian Rus received a heavy inheritance in the field of education from Austro-Hungarian domination. The public school in Kolochava did not work. Emelyan Skiba, who was sent by the Mukachevo diocese to Kolochava on September 17, 1918, taught children in a church school, and then - since 1923 - in the state Czechoslovak school. For several years he was the only teacher in the village. He worked in two shifts, because every day the school was attended by 147 children. He taught children in Russian folk speech, for which his peasants loved him. However, he alone could not teach the whole village, and therefore the level of education in the high mountains of Kolochava was low. In order to eradicate ignorance at least a little, courses were organized for the illiterate.
Beginning in 1923, the state Czechoslovak school was founded in Kolochava - a public school with a Russian language of instruction.
The state comprehensive school with the Czech language of instruction first opened its doors in 1931. It was mainly visited by the children of local Jews, as well as representatives of the Czech government - a notary, officers and gendarmes, who were sent to Transcarpathia from the Czech Republic. Their children did not know the local language, and therefore could not attend a school with the Russian language of instruction. They closed the school in 1938. Despite the fact that the Czech school lasted 7 years, it left a noticeable mark in the history of the village.
In 2007, the old building was restored and the Czech School Museum opened.
The exposition was prepared according to the memoirs of former students of the Czech school and academician Nikolai Mushinka from the Pryaszewski University of Slovakia and Dr. František Doble, director of the Czech Museum Jan Comenius.
The museum consists of two rooms - a classroom and a teacher's lounge. The exhibits of the main school hall show that in the Czech state school they cared not only about the students' knowledge, but also brought them up in love for the “sweet” republic and its father - Tomáš Garíč Masaryk. The coat of arms of Czechoslovakia flaunted in front of the class, next to the blackboard is a portrait of the President of the country, and at the door is his bust.
The piano score invites you to play the national anthem and the geographical and physical maps of the country at that time show the expanses of Czechoslovakia from Šumava to the Carpathian ridge. Pupils of the Czech school wore wooden pencil cases and used inkwells and pens, bulky compasses and heavy geometric shapes. On school shelves there are works by Czech writers and cool magazines with grades of Kolochava students.
The bust of the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic, Tomasz Garik Masaryk, fell into the Kolochava Museum “Czech School” thanks to the Czechs themselves. It was donated to the newly created museum in 2007 by the director of the museum, Jan Kamensky, in the city of Přerov, Dr. František Doble, along with numerous other Czech school supplies. Since then, the “father” of the Czechoslovak Republic has been standing in the corner of the museum’s classroom. Above him stands his ever-lasting dictum: "Tell me what you read, and I will tell you who you are."
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