... 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 education of women as active (though not equal) contributors in the process of civilising society. An international essay competition on the question of serfdom ... and society, so the Russian Academy, which Catherine founded in 1783, was intended to make her subjects more conscious of the beauties of their language by systematising its rules and compiling a Dict...

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