Jelena Lieven
Jelena Lieven (1842–1917), was an Imperial Russian pedagogue. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1895–1917.Согласно личному делу Е. А. Ливен, хранящемуся в ЦГИА СПб, она умерла 28 мая 1915 года в 1 час 55 мин дня (ф. 2. оп 1 дело 13983. л. 105) Daughter of Alexander Karlovich Lieven, Alexander Lieven. Jelena Lieven was not formally educated but received a very high level of education through Autodidacticism. She was early active with her mother as a philanthropist. She never married, and after having received a very small inheritance after her father's death in 1880 she asked the Imperial family for a position. She was made manager of the home for the orphans of officers and in 1895 as principal for the Smolny Institute. She reformed the hygiene, introduced electricity (1909), granted the students leaser time by cutting their study time by half, gave craftsmanship and ...
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