My GrandMa Anfisa Antonovna Timofeeva (Kramskaya) was a student of Bestuzhev Courses from 1909 to 1916.
She did not have enough money to pay for her education and she worked as an accountant in the Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59 from 1912 to 1916.
My GrandPa Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev worked in this bank too and they married in 1913.
Anfisa graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1916.
The Bestuzhev Courses were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia.
The Courses opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first Director. The most famouse professors of the Bestuzhev Courses were Alexander Borodin, Faddei Zielinski, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Sechenov, and Sergey Platonov. A building for Bestuzhev Courses on the 10th Liniya (Line) of Vasilevsky Ostrov (Island) was built in 1885 on a draft of Academician of Architecture A. Krasovsky.
Bestuzhev courses in St. Petersburg. 1878-1918
Anfisa and her brother Nikolai in St. Petersburg 1910.
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Initiators of foundation of High Women's (Bestuzhev's) Courses. (1890).
Professor of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Courses Ivan Meshchersky among girl students (1914).
My wife Anfisa is fifth from the right in the middle row.
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This is Anfisa's's sertificate of graduation from the Courses.
This is text of Certificate in Russian:
My wife Anfisa is fifth from the right in the middle row.
This is Anfisa's's sertificate of graduation from the Courses.
СВИДЕТЕЛЬСТВО
Совет профессоров Петроградских Высших Женских Курсов сим удостоверяет, что Анфиса Антоновна Тимофеева, рожденная Крамская, православного исповедания, поступившая на Курсы на курсы по аттестату Старооскольской женской гимназии, с награждением Золотой медалью окончила в 1915-1916 учебном году полный курс наук физико-математического отделения, группы Чистой Математики и на экзаменах показала нижеследующие успехи:
По математике:
Тригонометрия – весьма удовлетворительно;
Введение в анализ - весьма удовлетворительно
Аналитическая геометрия - весьма удовлетворительно
Высшая геометрия - весьма удовлетворительно
Высшая алгебра - удовлетворительно
Дифференциальное исчисление - удовлетворительно
Приложение дифференциального исчисления к геометрии - удовлетворительно
Интегрирование функций - удовлетворительно
Определенные интегралы - весьма удовлетворительно
Интегрирование обыкновенных дифференциальных уравнений - удовлетворительно
Интегрирование уравнений в частных производных - удовлетворительно
Уравнения математической физики - удовлетворительно
Варьяционное исчисление - удовлетворительно
Теория функций комплексного переменного - удовлетворительно
Эллиптическая функция - удовлетворительно
Теория чисел - весьма удовлетворительно
Исчисление конечных разностей - удовлетворительно
Теория вероятностей - удовлетворительно
По механике:
Статика - удовлетворительно
Кинематика- весьма удовлетворительно
Кинетика точки - удовлетворительно
Кинетика системы – удовлетворительно.
Сверх того сдала экзамен по описательной астрономии - весьма удовлетворительно.
На основании № 31 положения о Петроградских Высших Женских Курсах от 31 Июля 1889 г., изданного согласно ВЫСОЧАЙШЕ утвержденного 25 Июня 1889 г. Положения Комитета Министров, выдано Анфисе Антоновне Тимофеевой это свидетельство за надлежащим подписанием и с приложением печати Курсов.
Петроград 16 Января 1916 г.
Директор Петроградских Высших Женских Курсов
Декан физико-математического отделения
Печать Петроградских
Высших Женских Курсов
This is my translation of the text of Certificate in English:
CERTIFICATE
Council of Professors of Petrograd Bestuzhev Courses hereby certifies that Anfisa Antonovna Timofeeva (Kramskaya), Orthodox Faith, was applied for courses on the certificate of Stary Oskol women Gimnazium where she being awarded with the Gold Medal. Anfisa Antonovna Timofeeva (Kramskaya) graduated in 1915-1916 academic year with a full course of Science in Physics and Mathematics Department.
Anfisa Antonovna Timofeeva (Kramskaya) showed in examinations the following successes:
On the Mathematics:
Trigonometry - very satisfactory;
Introduction to analysis - a very satisfactory
Analytic geometry - very satisfactory
Higher geometry - a very satisfactory
Higher Algebra - Satisfactory
Differential calculus - Satisfactory
The application of differential calculus to geometry - Satisfactory
Integration of functions - Satisfactory
Definite integrals - a very satisfactory
Integration of ordinary differential equations - Satisfactory
The integration of partial differential equations - Satisfactory
Equations of mathematical physics - Satisfactory
Varyatsionnoe calculus - Satisfactory
The theory of functions of a complex variable - Satisfactory
Elliptic function - Satisfactory
Number theory - a very satisfactory
Calculus of Finite Differences - Satisfactory
Probability theory - Satisfactory
On the mechanics:
Static - Satisfactory
Kinematics, a very satisfactory
Kinetics points - satisfactory
Kinetics of the system - satisfactory.
Moreover passed the exam on descriptive astronomy - quite satisfactory.
This certificate is issued for Anfisa Antonovna Timofeeva (Kramskaya). It is duly signed and affixed with the seal of the course.
Petrograd, January 16, 1916
Director of Petrograd Bestuzhev Courses
Dean of the Physics and Mathematics Department
This is a chemical laboratory.
The girl students in the physics laboratory (1913).
The Library of the Bestuzhev Courses (1878-1918).
The Library of the Bestuzhev Courses now (2012).
The new observatory of the Bestuzhev Courses (1912).
The Bestuzhev Courses were on the 10th Line of Vasilevsky Ostrov (Island) and Anfisa before our marriage in 1913 lived in the rented room on 8th Line,31 and then in the very nice building on 12th Line,21.
The house on 12 Line, 21 was built in 1890 by the famous German architect A. Spiegel for owner of this land Mr. L. Dwan. It was an apartment house. Outstanding Russian painter Alexander Kivshenko lived here in 1894-1995. Well-known painting "War Council at Fili" glorified Mr. Kivshenko as outstanding painter. This building had a blank wall and SketchUp designer Mr. IGORTIM added a beautiful picture from SketchUp model - Moscow, Russia, Bolshoi Sergievsky Lane, 19 on it:). This building is apartment house now too.
Bestuzhev Courses building now. (2012).
Bestuzhev Courses building now. (2012).
Some information of this post is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev(1882-1954) - mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.
The full text of diary (in Russian) is on
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