The Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Смольный институт благородных девиц Санкт-Петербурга) was the first women's educational...

for Education of Noble Maidens and constructed in 1806–08 to house the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens, established at the urging of Ivan Betskoy and...

following is a list of those who have been principals of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens. Rzhevskaya, G.I. (1871). "Memoirs of Glafira Ivanovna Rzhevskaya"...

Empress Maria". The first and most famous of these was the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in St. Petersburg. Secondary education for girls and a path...

singer. Born into a noble family of German, Polish, and Greek background, Root was educated at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in the Russian Empire...

the Russian Enlightenment, including the establishment of the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens, the first state-financed higher education institution...

The institute opened its doors in 1834. It was the Ukrainian equivalent to the Smolny Institute in Russia. The institute educated daughters from noble or...

Tegleva was a part of the Russian nobility as a member of the Teglev family. She was educated at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in Saint Petersburg...

work of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria began in 1796, when Empress Maria Feodorovna took the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens under...

since." After the death of her penniless father, Catherine and her sister Maria were sent to the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in St. Petersburg, a school...