The Russian Journal of Vietnamese StudiesThe Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies2618-9453Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the RAS84248Research ArticleWhat kind of education did Nguyen Truong To received?SobolewskiLeszek Marcinresearch fellow at the Faculty of Oriental studies, Warsaw University-Warsaw University151220171729431331102021Copyright © 2017, Sobolewski L.M.2017In the scholarly literature there has been a widespread opinion that Nguyen Truong To was a man of exceptionally broad knowledge in the area of Western learning. According to many authors, when he was young he received a thorough education in Western sciences from the French missionaries, which allegedly started in 1848. In this paper the author tries to prove that the above-mentioned opinion lacks any base in the available sources. On the contrary, the sources warrant the conclusion that in fact, Nguyen Truong To received principally the classical Confucian education, and that the missionaries just taught him for a short time and only on the common level. This circumstance allows to have doubts about the claim that he really was highly knowledgeable in the Western learning.Nguyen Truong ToeducationWestern learningmodernizationthe Nguyen dynastythe 19th centuryНгуен Чыонг Тообразованиезападные наукимодернизациядинастия Нгуенов19-е столетие[Archives des Missions Étrangeres de Paris. URL: http://archives.mepasie.org/fr/notices/notices-biographiques/gauthier (дата обращения: 15.01.2017).][Bang Do, Tu tuong canh tan dat nuoc duoi trieu Nguyen, NXB Thuan Hoa, 1999.][Boudarel G. Un lettre catholique vietnamien du XIXe siecle qui fait probleme: Nguyen Truong To (1828-1871) // Alain Forest, Yoshiharu Tsuboi (ред.) Catholicisme et societes asiatiques, Éditions l'Harmattan/Sophia University, «Recherches Asiatiques», Tokio, Paris, 1988.][Chu Hao (ред.), Nguyen Truong To: hom qua va hom nay, NXB Tri Thuc, Ha Noi, 2014.][Duong Quang Ham, Viet Nam van hoc su yeu, NXB Tre, TP Ho Chi Minh, 2005.][Dao Duy Anh, Les grandes familles de l'Annam. S. E. Tran-Tien-Thanh // BAVH № 2, 194, 1944. С. 91-159.][Dao Duy, Nguyen Truong To hoc o dau?, Tri tan, № 7, июль 1941. С. 3-4,23.][Hoang Thanh Dam, Nguyen Truong To. Thoi the tu duy cach tan, Nha xuat ban Van Nghe TP. Ho Chi Minh, 2001.][Kelley L., Vietnam as a 'Domain of Manifest Civility' (van hien chi bang)// Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 34, 2003. С. 63-76.][Launay, A., Histoire generale de la societe des missions-etrageres, Pierre Tequi, Paris, 1894.][Le Thi Lan, Tu tuong cai cach o Viet Nam nua cuui the ky XIX, NXB Khoa hoc Xa hoi, Ha Noi, 2002.][Le Thuoc, Nguyen Truong To tien sinh tieu su // Nam Phong, 1926, 102. С. 4-12.][McLeod, M.W., Nguyen Truong To: A Catholic Reformer at Emperor Tu-duc's Court//Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 25, Issue 02, September 1994.][McLeod, M.W., The Vietnamese response to French intervention, 1862-1874, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1991.][Nguyen Dinh Dau, Nguyen Truong To voi trieu dinh Tu Duc, NXB Tre, Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh, 2013.][Nguyen Truong To, Tran tinh khai// Nam Phong, 117, май 1927. С. 54-59.][Nguyen Truong To, Luc loi tu // Nam Phong, 119, июль 1927. С. 3-11.][Philipphe Tran Cong Thuan, Tu tuong canh tan cua Nguyen Truong To va «Cai hoc thuc dung», NXN Tu dien Bach Khoa, 2013.][Ramsay J. Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.][Thant Myint-U, The making of modern Burma, Cambridge University Press, 2004.][Tran Van Giau, Su phat trien cua tu tuong Viet Nam tu the ky XIX den Cach mang Thang Tam (т. 1)/ изд. 3/ NXB Chinh tri quoc gia, Ha Noi, 1996.][Truong Ba Can, Nguyen Truong To. Con nguoi va di thao, NXB Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh, 1988.][Vinh Sinh, Nguyen Truong-To and the quest for modernization in Vietnam// Japan Review 11, 1999.][Archives des Missions Étrangeres de Paris. URL: http://archives.mepasie.org/fr/notices/notices-biographiques/gauthier (дата обращения: 15.01.2017).]