Ancient traditions preserved for ...

Ancient traditions preserved for posterity his main commandment: "Strange and beggars nakormlyali and watered, like a mother's own children." And he bequeathed to his children: "Izbavte obidimago, protect the orphan, to justify the widow." Children of Prince strictly abide by an instruction of his father. Despite the fact that by the time Vladimir Monomakh until the end of the XVI century there were no new laws on public charity, stories told to us charitable activities of many political figures of the century. So, Prince of Chernigov Nikolai Davidovich (XII century.) Built a monastery in Kiev hospital. When the prince was kept Peter Siryanin doctor, whose name in the history of ancient medicine is one of the leading places. His selfless assistance to all strazhduyuschim was a role model for many generations of doctors. Grandson of Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh Rostislav Mstislavovich after the death of his uncle, Grand Duke Vecheslava Vladimirovich (1154) all its property and distributed the treasury monasteries, churches, the poor, widows and strangers. And his son - Prince Roman Rostislavovich all his life to philanthropy and devoted his coffers, did not leave himself even for burial. Duke buried on ... public subscription. In one day, was collected such a sum, which exceeded the income of Prince in a year. Caring for the helpless, the sick, wanting and rulers pay attention to them, the Grand Duke Alexander Yaroslavovich (also known as Alexander Nevsky) in 1247 issued a decree stating the responsibilities of the Council of nobles: "Take under the protection of widows, orphans, all weak and persecuted, to justice for your crying. God sees their tears. He was with me and with you Seek. " The reign of Ivan IV Vasilyevich, entered history under the name of Ivan the Terrible, like many other autocrats rule, is contradictory. No less contradictory and evaluation, which gives him our science, whenever podlazhivayas under the "install over". Without engaging in scientific debate, just want to continue talking about "compassionate tradition" in Russia, consider how terrible the king belonged to his ancestors, that the rulers of the sovereign's care. Adopting the rule of the kingdom in the age of 17, Ivan IV gathered in Moscow to the clergy, the boyars, the duma clerks and other state-owned men, commanded them to make new laws and soon gave them. What a place occupied by this new legal code of the issues of public charity and philanthropy? One of the first legal documents "Tsar Herod" was Sudebnik. It read: "In the monasteries zhiti poor, who feed on the alms of the church of God." In the "Hundred Chapters", compiled in 1551 the Spiritual Council, many chapters are also devoted to charity paupers, beggars, cripples, widows. The Emperor commands define the content and charity patients, wandering the world, and defines the basic means at the expense of the treasury. "Milostinya and feed annual" bread and salt, and money and clothes to almshouse cottages in all cities offer from our treasury. " Ivan IV, also publishes a decree, which orders "in every city of ustroiti almshouse male and female, where lepers and prestarivshihsya that can not anywhere the same chapter podkloniti and bailiffs buried betray, and the add pominati in sacred services.