Записки маленькой гимназистки. Записки институтки

Lidiia Charskaia (1875—1937) — populiarnaia pisatelʹnitsa dorevoliutsionnoĭ Rossii, avtor bolee 80 knig dlia deteĭ i vzroslykh. Glavnaia geroinia «Zapisok malenʹkoĭ gimnazistki», 9-letniaia devochka Lena Ikonina, otpravliaetsia zhitʹ k rodstvennikam v Peterburg posle smerti materi. Novaia semʹia vstrechaet ee vrazhdebno, deti v gimnazii osypaiut nasmeshkami, no vse meniaetsia, kogda u Leny poiavliaetsia khoroshaia podruga…V knigu takzhe voshla povestʹ «Zapiski institutki» — o budniakh vospitannits Pavlovskogo instituta blagorodnykh devits, ikh druzhbe i vzroslenii.

Lydia Charskaya (1875-1937) was a popular writer in pre—revolutionary Russia, the author of more than 80 books for children and adults. The main character of "Notes of a Little High School Girl," Lena Iconina, a 9-year-old girl, goes to live with relatives in St. Petersburg after her mother's death. Her new family greets her with hostility, the children at the gymnasium are ridiculed, but everything changes when Lena gets a good friend.…The book also includes the novel "Notes of an Institute girl" — about the everyday life of the pupils of the Pavlovsky Institute of Noble maidens, their friendship and growing up.