Bestuzhev course

English

Etymology

Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, its first director.

Noun

Bestuzhev course (plural Bestuzhev courses)

(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.

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