Russkaia zhenshchina : vospitanie, obrazovanie, sud'ba - Ponomareva,Khoro

Based on a wide range of sources - official documents, memoirs, diaries, correspondence - the book of 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 of Catherine II in 1764 on the establishment of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens to 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 of women's institutes, gymnasiums and courses, about governesses and home teachers, and much more.

Varvara Ponomareva and Lyubov Khoroshlova are PhDs in historical sciences, researchers of the Laboratory of Culture of the Historical Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. The 18th and early 20th centuries" - was released in 2016.