[A tray from His Imperial Majesty's copy] Karamzin, N. History of the Russian state. In 12 vols. 1, 7. 4th ed.

[A tray from His Imperial Majesty's copy] Karamzin, N. History of the Russian state. In 12 vols. 1, 7. 4th ed.
Saint Petersburg: Dependent on the bookseller Smirdin; in type. Widows Plushar with their son, 1833-1834.

Vol. 1: XXXVI, 258, 154 p., 1 maps.

19.5 x 11.5 cm. Luxurious Markelova bound era with embossing on cover and spine. On the front cover of the volume 1 embossed:

"From His Imperial Majesty, Catherine Dmitrievna Khlebnikova, a pupil of the Patriotic Institute, 1837".

Gold-tinted doublers, triple gold edging. On the flyleaf blind Congreve ex-libris engineer Vladimir Mikhailovich Verkhovsky.

Loss of part of the map in the first volume, " Fox " spots, pencil marks.

Women's Patriotic Institute-established in 1822 instead of the Orphan school for children of officers who died in the Patriotic war of 1812.

In 1812, Patriotic aristocrats created a charitable organization, which became known as the St. Petersburg women's Patriotic society. This society at the beginning of 1813 organized A home for the poor, in which almost simultaneously a school was established, in which the daughters of staff and chief officers or nobles who served in the military service were brought up almost exclusively. Already in February 1813, the Patriotic society began to receive petitions for the reception of orphaned girls.

In the first years of the existence of a precisely determined names the school had: it was called an Academy in 1812, and the Institute of female orphans of 1812, and the education of orphans of 1812, and also of the Orphan's Department, in 1812, the Academy of women's Patriotic society, the Institute of women's Patriotic society and just a Patriotic institution. Only in 1827, by an Imperial decree, it officially received the name: Patriotic Institute. As in other similar institutions (Educational society of noble maidens, Kharkiv Institute, etc.), a subscription was given that before the end of the course or other specific term, pupils "under no pretext" are not taken from the Institute, even for self-employed boarders, who began to be accepted from 1816.

In the first year, direct management of the school was carried out by: the widow of the court adviser Daria Feodorovna Schmidt (in 1813-1814) and the widow of the collegiate assessor Anna Kuzminichna Preter (in 1814-1819). Then for 28 years (until his death), the school, and then the Institute, was managed by the widow of major Luisa Antonovna von Wistinghausen.

Opened in March 1813, the school for the first six years was located in the house of Colonel Yakhontov hired by the Society on the street of the 9th company.

In 1812, the school purchased a plot of Beaupre with a stone two-story house of the end of the XVIII century. The territory was finally formed in the middle of the XIX century.

The block on Vasilievsky island, bounded by the 9th and 10th lines, Bolshoy Prospekt and Kadetskiy pereulok, in the first half of the XVIII century occupied the plots of the mathematician L. Euler, engravers H.-E. Vortman and I. Elyakova, the writer V. K. Trediakovsky. Trediakovsky's son sold the plot to the merchant S. S. Yakovlev. All these properties were subsequently transferred to the Patriotic Institute.

At the same time, the third floor was built. In the future, neighboring sites were added, and by the middle of the XIX century, the territory of the Institute stretched from Kadetsky lane to Bolshoy Prospekt. In 1823-1825, a prominent Metropolitan architect A. A. Mikhailov 2nd reconstructed the old three-story building and significantly expanded it towards Bolshoy Prospekt, thus forming the main building of the school.

In 1827, the school was named the Women's Patriotic Institute. The next construction work began-we purchased the köppe Baker's plot, stretched North along the 10th line. In 1827-1828, the architect A. E. staubert, with the participation Of A. F. Shchedrin, built the building on the fourth floor, built three-story wings on both sides of it, which were connected to it by two-story covered passages with arched passages on the first floor. There was a garden inside the property. In 1828, the Institute moved to the building.

In 1831, the teachers of the Patriotic Institute were equated by their official position to the teachers of similar institutions of the Office of the Empress Maria, and in 1834, the rules for the admission of girls to the Institute were approved by law. In financial terms, the Institute was well provided for: income from inviolable capital, a permanent payment of fees from the Committee on August 18, 1814, a significant increase in the number of pupils, and most importantly-the patronage of the Empress. This gave the Institute an opportunity to live in peace financially and, thanks to the participation of state Secretary Longinov, to direct attention to improving the material provision of employees and, at the same time, to better organize the entire educational process.

Emperor Nicholas I granted the Institute a plot along Bolshoy Ave. that belonged to the Academy of Sciences, and in 1834-1837 the architect A. F. Shchedrin built a South corner three-story building with a transition and added connecting buildings. In a separate building adjacent to the East, Shchedrin designed a two-light Assembly hall with choirs on Corinthian columns (the White hall).

In 1913, the Patriotic Institute celebrated its centenary. This was his last holiday.

In 1918, following the October socialist revolution and the beginning of the Civil war, women's institutes as a type of educational institution in Russia began to close. The women's Patriotic Institute was liquidated.