Meanings
nounBestuzhev course (plural Bestuzhev courses)
plural Bestuzhev courses
- historicalA course of higher education for women in imperial Russia.
I've got a sister in a Bestuzhev course.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 124
Origin
Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, its first director.
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