The occupiers invite girls aged 9-18 from the left bank of Kherson region to the so-called “Modern Institute of Noble Girls” — a project operating under the aegis of the illegal regional organization “Woman — the Nation’s Heritage”.
This is reported by pro-Russian media.
The training program is aimed at shaping a personality capable of “unquestionably respecting elders, caring for the younger ones and building relationships with the opposite sex solely for the purpose of creating a family”.
The course consists of six thematic blocks and provides for “social practice”. Pupils are encouraged to visit nursing homes, animal shelters, and also to watch “film lessons”.
The cost of training at the “institute”, which can be taken online and offline, is 12 and 7 thousand rubles respectively. Offline classes take place in Moscow.
The founder of the “Modern Institute of Noble Girls” is Maria Terekhova (Levina). She is also the president of the RRO “Woman — the Nation’s Heritage”.
The ROO “Woman — the Nation’s Heritage” was registered in Moscow in April 2019. The organization promotes the concept of a “new patriarchy” and a return to imperial standards of upbringing. The organization’s main instrument became the project “Modern Institute of Noble Girls”, which operates as an additional education school for teenagers.
The institution’s activity is based on strict ideological conditioning through the teaching of etiquette, the religious dogmas of the Russian Orthodox Church and “traditional values”.
In turn, the “Modern Institute of Noble Girls” as a separate educational and ideological project began to actively take shape and publicly announce itself in 2021.
The first intakes of girls and the holding of “balls of noble girls” in Moscow began immediately before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
In Sevastopol and Crimea the project under this name began to operate systematically from 2021–2022, when the occupation authorities of the peninsula began to issue grants for the “revival of imperial traditions”.
The project came to the occupied territories of Kherson region in 2023. This happened after Maria Levina’s organization received significant funding from the Russian Presidential Grants Fund specifically for work with TOT.