First Ladies. The province of Siberia, 19th century

Natalia P. MATKHANOVA , Natalia N. ALEKSANDROVA

n Western Europe and in America, the so-called women’s studies formed into a separate branch of knowledge as far back as in the late 1960s — early 1970s. Today, looking at a historical epoch with women’s eyes will not surprise anyone. Having freed itself from radical feminism, so characteristic of women’s studies at the onset, this branch of learning has been progressing quickly, and you can see it on the curricula of hundreds of educational institutions. In Russian historic literature, “women’s theme” has been present for over 200 years, but in the last two decades these investigations have witnessed a real boom (Pushkareva, 2002).

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