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Photo, Print, Drawing Institute for Noble Girls.

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Title

  • Institute for Noble Girls.

Summary

  • This view of the Institute for Noble Girls is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. The institute was founded in Kiev in 1838 as a boarding school for the daughters of impoverished nobles and later also admitted daughters of honorable citizens and merchants of the first guild. Architect V. Beretti began work that year on a huge building in classical style, which was completed in 1842. The institute admitted girls aged eight to 13, and the full course of study lasted six or seven years. Pupils received religious instruction in Orthodox Christianity or Roman Catholicism. They studied Russian language and literature, geography, history, arithmetic, basic physics and mineralogy, languages (Russian, Polish, German, and French), art, music, dance, needlework, and home economics. Some senior classes were taught by professors of Kiev University of Saint Vladimir and famous concert performers taught some music lessons. The view shown here is of the rear facade of the institute, as seen from Alexander Street. The 25 views in Souvenir of Kiev are collotypes, made using a chemically-based printing process widely employed before the invention of offset lithography.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1920]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Kiev
  • -  1842 to 1920
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Schools

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photomechanical print : collotype.
  • -  Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
  • -  Content in German and French and Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Souvenir of Kiev

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669060

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Institute for Noble Girls. Kiev Ukraine, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669060/.

APA citation style:

(1900) Institute for Noble Girls. Kiev Ukraine, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669060/.

MLA citation style:

Institute for Noble Girls. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669060/>.