| A Smolny Album: Glimpses Into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens Contributor(s): Kovaleff Baker, Nancy (Editor), Liarsky, Alexander (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1618118927 ISBN-13: 9781618118929 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Russian Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 371.822 |
| LCCN: 2018036400 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 11" W x 8.5" (1.39 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. An informative article by Alexander Liarsky, drawing on primary sources, presents the history of this pioneering Institute until its dissolution during the Revolution. Central to this volume are over 50 photographs of the Smolny from an extremely rare album that belonged to Kovaleff Baker's ancestor, who attended the Institute. Accompanying commentary by Liarsky calls attention to details of the photographs and brings them to life by excerpts from writings of Smolny students and other contemporaries found in St. Petersburg's archives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kovaleff Baker, Nancy: - 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.Liarsky, Alexander: - 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. |