An inspiring story about women's struggle for the right to education!

The Bestuzhev Courses are a unique phenomenon in Russian public life in the last quarter of the 19th - early 20th centuries. They were organized so that women could obtain higher education, and existed as a non-state university on private donations. Dmitri Mendeleev, Alexander Butlerov, and other Russian stars of world science taught here. The curriculum, equipment of laboratories and classrooms (the courses even had their own observatory and scientific library) corresponded to the level of world universities.

This comic tells the story of how, in the 19th century, three women created the first university for women in St. Petersburg. The book describes their struggle for the right to study, receive higher education, and work. You will also learn how the Bestuzhev Courses were organized, who taught there, who supported the initiative, and why it took women half a century to enter education.

Author: Anya Rusinova, Dima Gusev