Kobchenko, K. (2007). “Zhinochyi universytet Sviatoi Olhy”: istoriia Kyivskykh vyshchykh zhinochykh kursiv [“Saint Olha’s Women’s University”: A history of the Kyiv Higher Women’s Courses]. MP “Lesia.”
Annotation: This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the history of the Kyiv Higher Women’s Courses. Drawing primarily on archival sources, it traces the key milestones in the history of this women’s university — its founding, the restoration of the courses, and their attainment of accredited institution status. The study examines the role of university professors in establishing the institution and organizing its academic process, reconstructs the life and learning of the female students, and follows the early scholarly careers of future women scholars among the Kyiv Courses’ graduates. The history of the women’s university is presented in comparison with the development of men’s higher education, above all, Saint Volodymyr University, and within the broader context of the emergence and development of women’s higher education in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intended for scholars, instructors, students, and general readers.