... social progress and nurture a responsive and responsible `civil' society in Russia. Education and enlightenment would create `true sons of the fatherland' and even `a new species of humankind'. In 1769 she founded the Smol'ny Institutue, Russia's first girls' school, for the daughters of the nobility and bourgeoisie. In modelling the Institute on the latest pedagogical theories she showed a concern for the ... M. Hartley, Macmillan, 1990, pp.167-202). Just as she also sponsored scientific expeditions to investigate Russia's natural resources and thereby benefit state and society, so the...

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