Bestuzhevki. The first women"s university

Bestuzhev courses are a unique phenomenon of Russian public life of the last quarter of the 19th - early XX centuries. They were organized so that women could receive higher education, and exist as a non -state university for private donations. Dmitry Mendeleev, Alexander Butlerov and other Russian stars of world science taught here. Training programs, equipping laboratories and classes (there were even their own observatory and scientific library in the courses) - corresponded to the level of world universities.
Comics talks about how in the 19th century three women created the first university for women in St. Petersburg. The book describes their struggle for the right to study, receive higher education and work. You will also learn how Bestuzhevsk courses were arranged, who taught there, who supported the initiative, and why the path of women took half a century in education