place
Don Institute for Noble Maidens
Don Institute
also: Донской институт благородных девиц, Донской институт
A real boarding institution for the education of daughters of the Don Cossack gentry, located in Novocherkassk, of the type founded across the Russian Empire on the model of the Smolny Institute; Ilovaiskaya's schooling there marks her as provincial gentry rather than a recipient of the university-level 'higher courses' education Likharev pointedly notes she never had.
Reading notes
- On the Road §55 the Don Institute
The Don Institute for Noble Maidens (Донской институт благородных девиц), in Novocherkassk, was a real boarding institution for the education of daughters of the Don Cossack gentry, of the type founded across the Russian Empire on the model of the Smolny Institute. Ilovaiskaya's schooling there marks her as provincial gentry rather than metropolitan high society -- exactly the kind of "higher courses" (a term for university-level women's education in the capitals) that Likharev pointedly tells her she never had.