Кубанский Мариинский женский институт/ Mariinsky Kuban Women's Institute: 1863-1913

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Кубанский Мариинский женский институт 
1863 - 25.Х.1913

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photos
The Mariinsky Kuban Women's Institute 
1863 - 1913

In 1860, Emperor Alexander III approved the regulations for the Mariinsky Women's Institute Kuban Cossack Army with …."noble board" for 120 pupils.
The main aim of the Institution was to provide the daughters of the Kuban Cossack officers with an education to correspond to their future purpose in life, namely…." to be good spouses…. to care for the education of their children and be a good keeper of the household….."
The school opened on the 25th October 1863 to coincide with the arrival in Ekaterinodar of the new Governor of the Caucasus, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich.

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Prelude in D-major, Op. 23. No.4 by S. Rachmaninov

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