Russian Girlhood By Madame Romanoff. An Original Article From The English Illustrated Magazine – Circa 1891

In attempting to convey to the English mind a correct idea of Russian girlhood, I propose to take that period of life from the time when the child, thinking of soon being a big girl, begins to study regularly and seriously, until her final departure from the parents’ house. Of course that epoch varies in different spheres and families; but I will take the usual age for beginning school study to be ten or eleven years, when a child has attained the full age necessary for admittance into a public school, a mode of education by far the most popular in Russia, probably because it is the chapeast and most satisfactory. Governesses seem to be gradually fading away from the scene, although in rich and aristocaratic families they are kept to accustom the children from their earliest years to foreign languages.’ An original article (1891) – 5 pages H:24.5 x W:16cm