Bestuzhev course
English
Etymology
Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first director.
Noun
Bestuzhev course (plural Bestuzhev courses)
- (historical) A course of higher education for women in imperial Russia.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 124:
- I've got a sister in a Bestuzhev course.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 124:
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