Institute for Noble Maidens

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Institute for Noble Maidens (Russian: Институт благородных девиц) was a type of educational institution in late Imperial Russia. It was devised by Ivan Betskoy as a girl-only institution for girls of noble origin. The most famous of these was the Smolny Institute in St.Petersburg.

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