Institute for Noble Maidens
Institute for Noble Maidens (Russian: Институт благородных девиц) was a type of educational institution, finishing school in late Imperial Russia. It was devised by Ivan Betskoy as a girl-only institution for girls of noble origin. The first and most famous of these was the Smolny Institute in St.Petersburg.
Institutes for Noble Maidens
- Smolny Institute, St.Petersburg: 5 May 1764
- St. Catherine's School, Moscow: 1803
- Kharkov: 1812
Białystok noble girls' school - Kiev: 1838
- Białystok: initiated 1837, opened 1 November 1841 in former Tsar's palace
- Rodionovskiy Kazan: 1841
- Irkutsk: 1 July 1845
- Saratov: 1857
Alumni
Vera Bogdanovskaia - died doing chemistry.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn. Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. p. 311. ISBN 1135963436.
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