Figure 1.--This is a Russian First Day portrait. The girl may be a first grader, The older boy looks more like a kindergartner. The smapshot is undated, but the Russian source suggested the 1990s. |
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We do not know if there were kindergarten during the Tsarist era. We have no information on this. We notice kindegardens as part the Soviet system. We are not sure when they were introduced, but it seems to have been at a very early point. This was in part because Soviet women were expected to work. And arrangements had to be made for the children. We are not sure how common they were in the early years. They were presumably at first most common in the larger cities, although with collectivization (1931-32) we believe that we begin to see pre-schools in the countryside. Unlike the older children, we do not generally see the younger children wearing uniforms. We have, however, see groups of younger children dressed alike. We are not sure yet how to interpret this. We think these were some of the schools in the major cities. Unfortunately most of the images we have found do not have much in the way of explanatory text associated with them. So the clothes we see are an indication of popular fashion. mostly casual dress. And for special occassions the children dressed up so we see dressup fashions as well as casual fashion. The children here are a good example (figure 1).
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