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Bestuzhev course
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Etymology
Named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, its first director.
Noun
en historical A course of higher education for women in imperial Russia.
en 1989 H. T. Willetts w:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn August 1914 124 w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-51999-4 I've got a sister in a Bestuzhev course.
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