Officials said the five hundred students who entered were judged as much on their communication skills as for the scientific talent they showed.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

After all, the Russian Orthodox churchmen had not been interested in the Renaissance at all, not interested in the scientific revolution at all; and, by 1710, Russian students are being sent abroad to foreign universities, particularly in Italy, but also in France and in England.

毕竟,对俄国东正教的教士们来说,他们对文艺复兴一点兴趣也没有,也不关心科学上的革命,在一七一零年,俄国开始派大学生外出深造,主要是去意大利,当然法国和英国的都有

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