Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991Archived 2011-07-21 at the वेबैक मशीन, Catriona Kelly, pp. 515, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-11226-9, ... In the course of time, the occasion, known as 'The Last Bell', become associated with numerous other rituals ... particularly concentrated on one group of pupils, in this case those who had just completed their ten-year stint of education and were about to sit their examinations. An important part of the ceremony was the ringing of the bell itself, which in some schools was done by the smallest female pupil, who was carried to the bell in the arms, or on the shoulder, of the tallest school-leaver ...
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Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991Archived 2011-07-21 at the वेबैक मशीन, Catriona Kelly, pp. 515, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-11226-9, ... In the course of time, the occasion, known as 'The Last Bell', become associated with numerous other rituals ... particularly concentrated on one group of pupils, in this case those who had just completed their ten-year stint of education and were about to sit their examinations. An important part of the ceremony was the ringing of the bell itself, which in some schools was done by the smallest female pupil, who was carried to the bell in the arms, or on the shoulder, of the tallest school-leaver ...
