Charitable activities of the Moscow parish guardianship. The second half of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century

The book is devoted to the history of the charity of the church arrival in Moscow in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. Based on the archival document of the Moscow spiritual consistory and published sources and monograph, the history of church guardians, their composition, financing, management structure and main types of charitable activities are considered in detail: financial assistance in need, the maintenance of parish schools, shelters and is coherent, as well as educational activities. The book first illuminates a wide scale of church-parish charity in pre-revolutionary Moscow.
For a wide range of readers interested in the history of the Orthodox Church, charity and pre-revolutionary Moscow