- 47/34, Sredny pr. V.O.
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59.941860966306, 30.273091869568 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
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Историческая справка
In 1870, in the building of the Vladimir County School, the first university-type courses were opened, which could be attended by women equally with men. The academic staff included professors of St. Petersburg University such as physiologist Ivan Sechenov, chemist Aleksandr Borodin (who went down in history as a composer and participant of the Mighty Five), botanist Andrey Beketov, chemist Dmitry Mendeleev, and historian Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin. The courses existed until 1875. Three years later, the founders of the Vladimir courses, Nadezhda Stasova, Maria Trubnikova, Varvara Tarnovskaya, and Anna Filosofova, with the assistance of Beketov, obtained permission to open Higher Women’s Courses in St. Petersburg. Historiographer and source-study expert Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin was appointed the first director of the courses; in his honour the courses were unofficially called “Bestuzhev’s.” The grand opening of the Courses took place in September 1878 in the building of the Alexander Gymnasium on Gorokhovaya ulitsa.
As a private institution, the courses were funded mainly by a specially created Society for Funding the Higher Women’s Courses. In addition, a grant of three thousand rubles was provided from the Ministry of Public Education and St. Petersburg City Council. The courses offered paid education, but many teachers who had deep sympathy with the idea of women’s education worked free of charge.
The courses had such faculties as history and philology, physics and mathematics, and law (since 1906). The faculty of physics and mathematics was originally divided into physics and mathematics and special mathematics departments.
After the 1905 revolution, the Higher Women’s Courses received autonomy: the Council of Professors could choose the director from among their ranks and the educational process was reorganised. At the courses, a new subject system was introduced, which allowed students to select lecture courses, and teachers to expand the system of practical training. In 1910, the State Council recognised the Bestuzhev Courses as a higher educational institution providing education equal to that of a University. Therefore, a certificate of graduation of the Higher Women’s Courses was equated to a University degree.
Initially, the courses enrolled women of 21 years or older with secondary education and later gymnasium graduates without age limit. The courses graduates could teach senior classes at women’s gymnasiums — since 1901, senior classes at women’s institutes — since 1903, junior classes at men’s educational institutions — since 1906, and at universities — since 1915.
In the 1890’s, two separate buildings were constructed for the Higher Women’s Courses in the 10th liniya V.O. as designed by Academician of Architecture Aleksandr Krasovsky. In 1902-1903, Vladimir Pyasetsky and Sergey Pokrovsky constructed a new building along the eastern border of the site. Another building whose main facade overlooked Sredny prospekt appeared in 1913-1914. The building was designed by Vladimir Tseidler in neoclassicism style.
In 1918, the Bestuzhev Courses were reorganised into the Third Petrograd University, which merged with the First Petrograd University in September of the following year. The building in the 10th liniya went over to the faculty of mathematics and mechanics, and the building on Sredny prospekt to the faculty of chemistry. Now it is occupied by the Interfaculty Training Centre of St. Petersburg State University.
The graduates of the Bestuzhev Courses included radiochemist Maria Pasvik, aerologist Tatiana Klado, teacher Julia Fausek, revolutionaries Konkordia Samoilova and Nadezhda Krupskaya, actress and ballet historian Lyubov Blok, writers Ekaterina Balobanova, Anna Chertkova, and Olga Forsh.
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