Program of pupils socialization in girl’s schools of Empress Maria institutional department (last XIXth - early XXth century)
The article written on the basis of wide range of sources, analyzes the activity of the Empress Maria institutional department. It created girl's schools that gave the pupils not only general education, but special professional training, allowing them to adapt to the rapidly changing conditions of the Russian everyday life of the second half of the XIXth — early XXth century.