Guerrier Courses
The Higher Courses for Women in Moscow (Russian: Московские высшие женские курсы, romanized: Moskovskiye Vysshiye Zhenskiye Kursy, lit.
It was one of the largest and most prominent women's higher education institutions in the Russian Empire, second only to the Bestuzhev Courses in Saint Petersburg.
Guerrier persuaded the Minister of Public Education Count Dmitry A. Tolstoy to sanction a higher school for women in Moscow.
In the total volume of incoming financial resources, tuition fees amounted to more than 75%; part of the funds (up to 7%) were voluntary donations; from 1875 to 1882 Moscow Merchant Administration allocated 500 rubles a year for 10 scholarships.
The listeners also submitted an autobiography, a certificate of moral conduct and political integrity from the governor general, two photographs and, without fail, permission from the eldest man in the family or spouse.
The feeble-minded people who ruled in the 80s believed that they had won a great success over the revolution by forbidding the admission of girls to the Higher Women's Courses.
However, due to the fact that Vernadsky was simultaneously elected assistant rector of the Imperial Moscow University, he never took up his duties in the Courses.
[8] The courses were taught by such outstanding scientists as Vladimir I. Vernadsky (with his student V. V. Karandeev ), Sergey A. Chaplygin, Sergey S. Nametkin, Nikolay D. Zelinsky, Alexander A. Eichenwald, Boleslav K. Mlodzeevskii, Aleksandr N. Reformatsky, Ivan A. Ilyin, Alexander V. Zinger, Bogdan A. Kistyakovski and others.
In 1905, the Moscow City Council decided to provide courses free of charge with a land plot on Devichye Pole .
By 1912, 227 professors, teachers, lecturers and assistants were involved in the courses, more than a third of whom had doctoral or master's degrees; among them: former rector of Moscow University Alexander A. Manuilov, astronomer Pavel K. Shternberg, mathematician Nikolay A. Izvolsky, biologists Mikhail A. Menzbier and Nikolai K. Koltsov, physiologists Mikhail N. Shaternikov and Lazar S. Minor, philosophers Leo M. Lopatin, Pavel I. Novgorodtsev, historians Matvei K. Lyubavsky, Yury V. Gotye, Ivan V. Tsvetaev.
Alexandre A. Kiesewetter, sociologist Veniamin M. Khvostov, biologist Lev A.Tarassevitch, historian of philosophy Alexander V. Kubitsky.
However, the annual graduation was no more than 30% of the number of applicants, which was due to the inability of the students to withstand heavy teaching loads and most of the time to study on their own.
[citation needed] In 1882–1885, Maria Pavlovna Chekhova studied at the courses, after which she taught history and geography for 18 years at the private Moscow women's gymnasium L. F. Rzhevskaya.
At different times, the courses were attended by: Vera Muromtseva, the future wife of Ivan A. Bunin, translator, publicist; a close friend of Anton P. Chekhov, Lidia Mizinova, an actress, translator, memoirist, literary and theater critic, who became the prototype of Nina Zarechnaya in the play "The Seagull "; Nadezhda Afanasyevna Bulgakova, sister of Mikhail A. Bulgakov.
Vera Stepanovna Nechayeva became a well-known researcher of the work of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, the author of the most complete scientific biography of Vissarion G. Belinsky.
[11] In 1917, Lidia Karlovna Lepin (1891-1985), a specialist in physical and colloidal chemistry, a future academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, graduated from the course.
Alexandra Glagoleva-Arkadieva the first Russian woman and physicist to become internationally known for her physics research on medical imaging using X-rays, mechanisms for generating microwaves, and spectrometry in the far infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Srbui Lisitsian was an Armenian-Soviet ethnographer known for her development of a novel mathematical method for describing folk dance precisely using film techniques.
