Bestuzhev course

English

Etymology

Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, its first director.

Noun

Bestuzhev course (plural Bestuzhev courses)

1. (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.