Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities: Historical Continuity and Existential Challenges of Wartime

The year 2025 is coming to an end... Another year in the history of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which just celebrated the 410th anniversary of its founding... Paving a long and complex path from the "brotherhood school" opened in Kyiv's Podil in 1615 to the modern university established in 1992 based on the best world standards, the Kyiv Academy has played an outstanding role in the history of education, science, and culture in Eastern Europe, and in the formation of the Ukrainian nation, identity, and statehood.The establishment and systematic development of the humanities within the area of Eastern Slavic Orthodoxy is directly linked to the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.This is not surprising, considering its unique experience in building an Orthodox humanistic school that was fully compliant with both European educational standards of the early modern era and the demands of Ukrainian culture at the time.By transposing the principles and methods of European humanistic schooling into the practice of the first higher Orthodox educational institution in Eastern Europe, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy played a powerful role in the formation of humanitarian education, closely intertwined with religious and moral upbringing, aimed not only at acquiring knowledge but also at fostering the Christian