There were some kind of Officers' Clubs, but...

There were some kind of Offiers' Clubs, but what people visited those? Any woman - was it suitable? How did those clubs function?

Does anybody know more about them? Please, let us know!

Each regiment (or equivalent unit) maintained its Officers' Assembly [Офицерское собрание] - a closed club where the unit officers dined, played billiard, read newspapers and engaged in other "permitted" leisure activities. The waiters, cooks and other personnel were recruited from the unit's soldiers. Each officer was obliged to pay a membership fee and also a monthly bill. The assembly was governed by a board, which also granted permissions to officers for inviting their guests to the assembly - usually officers from other units, close male relatives etc. Women were never allowed on an individual basis (except for female members of the imperial family patronizing this particular unit), but on rare occasions officers' wives, sisters and mothers were invited en masse - for instance, to amateur theater performances and concerts.