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We do not know if there were kindergarten during the Tsarist era.
We notice kindegardens as part the Soviet system. We are not sure when they were introduced. They were presumably at first more common in the larger cities. Kindergarden at least since World War II seems to have been very extensive. I am not sure, however, if they were compulsory or if so when they were made compulsory. Unlike primary and secondary school students, Kindergarten children did not wear uniforms. We believe that the children enter kindergarten at age 5 years.
Here we see the children from a modern Russian kindergarden involved in a school pagent of some kind (figure 1). It looks to be one of the "Seasons celebration", they are traditional for kindergartens. Red apples in a
basket is one of Autumn symbols (for Russia), so may be it is "Welcome, Autumn" celebration. Kindergarden children commonly wore long stockings and modern children often wear tights. Short pants and white tights are considered a dressy outfit. A reader tells us, "My friend from Russia stated that most children started school later in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. School starts at 7 rather than 5 or 6. They
have older parents or elderly people who will watch children for very little money. This person is rather wealthy so the information I am giving you may only apply to wealthy people or government people but she grew up in Moscow." Hopefully our Russian readers will tell us more about kinfergarten.
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).
Kindergarden at least since World War II seems to have been very extensive. I am not sure, however, if they were compulsory or if so when they were made compulsory.
Unlike primary and secondary school students, Kindergarten children did not wear uniforms. We see some Soviet kindergartens in which the chidren are dressed similarly, almost like uniforms, but I do not think this was very common. Our image archive is still very limited so it is not possible to draw firm conclusions at this gtime. For the most part the children wore their own clothes. Some garments seem very common. We see, for example, alot of children wearing short pants and long stockings. We are not sure if this was just common garments for children or the kindergartens provided guidance as to how the children should be dressed.
We believe that the children enter kindergarten at age 5 years. A reader tells us, "My friend from Russia stated that most children started school later in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. School starts at 7 rather than 5 or 6. They
have older parents or elderly people who will watch children for very little money. This person is rather wealthy so the information I am giving you may only apply to wealthy people or government people but she grew up in Moscow." Hopefully our Russian readers will tell us more about kindergarten.
Here we see the children from a modern Russian kindergarden involved in a school pagent of some kind (figure 1). It looks to be one of the "Seasons celebration", they are traditional for kindergartens. Red apples in a basket is one of Autumn symbols (for Russia), so may be it is "Welcome, Autumn" celebration. Kindergarden children commonly wore long stockings and modern children often wear tights. Short pants and white tights are considered a dressy outfit. Most kindergarden activities of course take place in the classroom and we notice a wide range of activities taking place there. The classroon environment is less formal than that for older children. Kindergarteners are just learning about school and how to behave in class. There are both academic and play activities, but a great deal of learning takes place even in the play activities. The academic activities are to prepare the children for reading and writing which will begin in earnest in thecfirst grade. There are also numeric skills to be taught. Skilled teachers can add all sorts of interesting activities to excite the imaninations of these children who are enormously curious.
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