A Smolny Album

Glimpses Into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens
Herausgeber: Kovaleff Baker, Nancy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens, or the Smolny Institute, was founded by Catherine the Great as the first state educational institution for women in Russia. This book presents the history of this pioneering Institute until its dissolution during the Revolution. Central to the volume are over 50 photographs of the institute.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2018
• Russisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 279mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781618118929
• ISBN-10: 1618118927
• Artikelnr.: 53018849

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nancy Kovaleff Baker has taught music history at Columbia and Yale Universities, and has been an administrator at Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Boston Universities.  She has published translations, with commentary, of an eighteenth-century German theoretical music treatise, coedited a Festschrift, and written a number of articles. The book on the Smolny Institute is her tribute to the Russian side of her family. Russian historian Alexander Liarsky has published on the history and anthropology of education, the history of childhood and of everyday life, and the history and anthropology of modernization.  He has taught at St. Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics, the Interregional Institute of Economics and Law, and, currently, is Senior Lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Nancy Kovaleff Baker The Smolny Institute Alexander Liarsky Translated by Karen L. Freund and Katherine T. O
Connor An Album of The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens Commentary by Alexander Liarsky Translated by Karen L. Freund and Katherine T. O
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