concept
Bestuzhev Courses
Bestuzhev course student
also: Бестужевские курсы
The Bestuzhev Courses, St. Petersburg's higher education courses for women (founded 1878) -- named here in passing to place a maternity-ward patient as an educated, unmarried "new woman" of the era.
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §4798 Bestuzhev-course student
Marks the ward-mate as an educated, independent young woman of the new type, by naming St. Petersburg's higher courses for women.