The Institute Girls

Nadezhda Frank, nicknamed Bayard, is raised in the Institute for Noble Maidens. She is, like a "knight without fear and reproach," desperate, brave, and always ready to help.
She has a friend, Lyudochka Shkot, who always has her own opinion and point of view.
They are the bastion of justice in a class where they study with girls with amusing nicknames such as Chernushka, Pyshka, Buldozhka, and Rusalochka.
Ahead lies the graduation year, exams, a ball, and the inevitable parting. For now, there is time for joys and sorrows, pranks and punishments. A time when you do not yet think about what awaits you in the adult world.

"The Institute Girls" is a very sincere book about upbringing, growing up, and the lives of girls in closed educational institutions, about how they loved, befriended, and dreamed almost a century and a half ago.
After reading it, you will see: everything in the world changes, but at all times, girls dream of happiness, true friendship, and real love.