Russia s Charity Profile Guzel Sungatullina Group III —

Russia’s Charity Profile Guzel Sungatullina Group III - 6

Plan: ü History of charity in Russia ü Distinguished charity activists ü Modern charity trends

monasteries ü shelter and medical help ü monks ü poor relief - almsgiving

Feodor Alekseyevich Rtishchev ü ü ü Alexis I - public philanthropy and voluntarism the great famine in Vologda the wounded in the Russian-Polish wars alms-houses and schools in Moscow Andreevsky monastery

Peter the Great hospitals for invalids and the elderly ü orphanages for illegitimate children ü

Empress Catherine the Great ü ü ü 1775 Statute on Provincial Administration Social Welfare Boards in 49 provinces specialized charitable institutions: foundling homes almshouses insane almshouses orphanages workhouses the boarding schools for children of needy nobles

Empress Maria Feodorovna ü ü ü the "minister of charity“ public education health services Mariinsky and the Midwife Institutes the Gatchina House of Education the first Russian Deaf-Mute School (in Pavlovsk)

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna ü the St Petersburg Clinical Institute ü Krestovozdvizhens kaya community of medical nurses

St. Petersburg Women's Patriotic Society ü in 1812 - to help the victims of war with Napoleon ü since 1816 - widows, orphans, disabled or refugees ü private boarding schools named after the city districts

Princess Tatiana Vasilevna Golitsyna ü female education in Russia ü 1837 - hand-made schools for girls ü a Basket weaving workshops

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna ü the Convent of Sts. Martha and Mary, it’s abbess ü a hospital, a chapel, a pharmacy and an orphanage on its grounds ü sick and wounded during the First World War

Elizabeth Feodorovna ü after the revolution - was dumped alive into the Lower Selim mine near Alapaevsk

Varvara Morozova ü ü ü ü Abram Morozov - a wealthy textile merchant Tverskaya textile manufactory a public mental asylum in Moscow a free library and reading room near Chistiye Prudy field hospitals for wounded solders from flooding female classes and scientific laboratories

by the beginning of the 20 th century more than 40 female charities. ü October Revolution of 1917 ü The government - full responsibility for the social welfare of the people ü

The Soviet Union 1950 - a form of Shefstvo (patronage or sponsorship) ü 1987 - Lenin Soviet children's fund (now "Russian Children's Fund") ü aim - volunteer help to child protection activities ü 1990 ü

Modern distinguished philanthropists ü ü ü Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation – to improve the health of children worldwide Chulpan Khamatova - "Grant Life“- to help children with cancer Alla Yaroshinskaya - the Ecological Charity Fund Anna Netrebko - SOS-Kinder. Dorf project, functions in 104 countries of the world Natalia Vodianova - the Naked Heart Foundation

Modern trends ü ü ü public communities - aim at helping boarding houses, orphanages at local internet forums homeless and stray animals natural disasters and technological catastrophes (the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in 1986) missing people (Liza Alert)

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