Bestuzhev course
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, its first director.
Noun[edit]
Bestuzhev course (plural Bestuzhev courses)
- (historical) A course of higher education for women in imperial Russia.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 124:
- I've got a sister in a Bestuzhev course.