Sara Biller. Angliyskaya uchitel'nica iz Sheffilda v Peterburge XIX veka

Kniga istorika Dzhona Danstana posvyaschena Sare Biller, urozhdennoy Kilgem, docheri myatezhnogo angliyskogo protestanta, priehavshey v Sankt-Peterburg i stavshey pervoy nachal'nicey Shkoly vzaimnogo obucheniya dlya bednyh devochek po lankasterskoy sisteme. Avtor znakomit chitatelya s zhizn'yu Sary na ee rodine i v peterburgskom krugu druzey i kolleg. Shkola vzaimnogo obucheniya, otkrytaya v 1821 godu i preobrazovannaya zatem v Uchilische Sv.Eleny, v nastoyaschee vremya yavlyaetsya odnim iz veduschih obrazovatel'nyh uchrezhdeniy Sankt-Peterburga - shkoloy № 77 s uglublennym izucheniem himii. Izvestnaya peterburgskaya blagotvoritel'nica pervoy poloviny XIX veka, Sara Biller so vsey prisuschey ey energiey s 1846 goda samootverzhenno rabotala v Svyato-Troickoy obschine sester miloserdiya, stavshey priyutom dlya mnogih strazhduschih. V knige rasskazyvaetsya o polozhenii Sary Biller v russkoy stolice, ee otnosheniyah s imperatorskim dvorom. Zhizn' i lichnost' Sary Biller zainteresuet teh, kto zanimaetsya istoriey Sankt-Peterburga, mestom inostrannyh obschin i zapadnoevropeyskih missionerov v mnogonacional'nom gorode i vsey Rossii XIX veka i istoriey obrazovaniya.