Khrystyna Alchevska

Khrystyna Danylivna Alchevska (Ukrainian: Христина Данилівна Алчевська; born Zhuravlova) (1841–1920) was Ukrainian pedagogue, organiser of public education, philanthropist, writer. Founder of the Kharkiv Women's Sunday School, which served as a model for adult education in Russian Empire and was praised in the West. In 1889, she was elected vice-president of the International League of Education in Paris.

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