Women's Patriotic Institute

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The Women's Patriotic Institute (Russian: Патриотический институт) was a girls' school in Saint Petersburg in Russia between 1822 and 1918. It was a charity school, founded by the Patriotic Society. Originally a charity school with the purpose of educating the orphan daughters of officers who died during the French invasion of Russia, it gradually developed into a fashionable girl school.

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Абросимова Б. А. О благотворительных организациях в России / А. Б. Абросимова // Советское государство и право. — 1992. — No. 1