Russkaia zhenshchina:vospitanie,obrazovanie,sud'ba XVIII-nachalo XX veka - Ponomareva Varvara Vital'evna

Based on a wide range of sources - official documents, memoirs, diaries, correspondence - the book by Varvara Ponomareva and Lyubov Khoroshlova tells about the evolution of women's education and education in Russia for a century and a half - from the decree Catherine II in 1764 about the establishment of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens before the Revolution of 1917. Looking at the unique material, through the prism of specific women's stories, the transition from traditional society to the 'new' culture, the authors simultaneously report a lot of details about the family life of the described era, the internal structure and curriculum women's institutions, grammar schools and courses, about governesses and home teachers and much more. Varvara Ponomareva and Lyubov Khoroshlova are PhDs in historical sciences and researchers from the Cultural Laboratory of the Faculty of History at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosova. Their first book in the publishing house 'Lomonosov' - 'The World of Russian Woman. Family, profession, home. The 18th - early 20th century' - was released in 2016.