institution
Guerrier Higher Women's Courses
the Courses
also: Высшие женские курсы В. И. Герье, kursistka
Vladimir Guerrier's Higher Women's Courses, one of the main institutions of Russian higher education for women in Moscow from 1872; students were commonly called "kursistki."
Reading notes
- To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 2 November 1883. Moscow. §2 lady student
"Kursistka," a student at one of Russia's higher courses for women -- here Vladimir Guerrier's Higher Women's Courses in Moscow, which Yunosheva attended and where she studied entomology, the joke's premise.