History of the Women’s Commercial School establishment at Moscow Society for Dissemination of Commercial Education

The article analyses women’s commercial education at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. It considers the activities of the Moscow Society for Dissemination of Commercial Education and development of private philanthropy. Special attention is paid to the foundation the Women’s Commercial School. The paper shows main stages of its emergence and development, provides information on the establishment of the house church. Curricula, as well as normative documents, promoting the development of women’s commercial education in the early twentieth century were analyzed. The article is of interest to readers who are engaged in the history of commercial education in Russia.

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