Cities guardianship of poor people in capitals and provinces on the boundary XIX-XX centuries

Abstract

This article is devoted to the activity
of city self-government institutions in
the sphere of Charity. On the basis of Moscow
and Tula province (funds 85 «The Tula
city guardianship», 778 «Guardianship of the
Tula almshouse poor», printing reports about
activity of cities guardianship of Moscow district)
the comparative analysis of the capital
and provincial charity is carried out: kinds,
conditions and the sizes of the help rendered
by cities guardianship are compared. In the
conditions of the modernization of the second
half of the XIX-th century which has entailed
property stratification in the society, guardianship
activity promoted in many respects social
adaptation of a poor part of the population
to new economic conditions. The lack of money
resources directed on charity in a province
was compensated by attempts to create more
branched system of the address help, and also
by the cooperation with church guardianship.