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And be where the streets and bridges will be poor, those fish and lead to the monastic order, repairing punishment. " Vagrancy, begging people healthy and able to work severely punished: "To beat mercilessly batozhem, beat the area with his whip, sent to penal servitude." Basically, all sent in a cloth yard and other manufactories, where people earn their labor to feed itself. Peter tried to break the prevailing stereotype of the Russian people poor, wretched, fool, "the man of God": "hedgehog who gives milostinu beggar, would be taken from him a fine of 5 rubles, and who wish to milostinu give - give it to be in goshpitali and other such places . It is such places have been almshouses, houses of infants, where the detained people who can not by age or illness to work. The punishment for vagrancy, begging, lazy, and provided for in the spiritual rules. "A lot of bums in perfect health, for their laziness embark on a petition milostiny and the world that is contrary to God and to all the fatherland is harmful. God commands us sweat of our faces, from the works of yasti bread ...». At the same time spiritual laws signed by all the monasteries to open hospice at home and infirmaries, where would find shelter and food for a truly needy: "The elderly in the glory of God consumed at rest." Peter I pays a lot of public attention to the preservation of children's lives. I think that played a role here, and personal motives. Of the eleven children of Peter's second marriage to Martha Skavronskaya (the future Empress Catherine I), 9 died at an early age. Smallpox, dysentery and many other infectious diseases carried off thousands of children's lives. Peter publishes a series of decrees, one of them says: "In all provinces inflict shpitalety for the maimed, and feed the babies who are born from illegal wives will ...». Prejudice society illegitimate often push women to the crime of which Peter speaks in one of his edicts: "... Elect skilled women to save babies shameful, that the wife and the girls give birth to iniquity and shame for otmetyvayut in different places, why they are, babies dying of. " It is interesting that everywhere strictly kept secret, and know from whom these children, is strictly prohibited. "Points" for the admission of children opened in all hospitals in the churches, the monasteries. By decree of Peter the many monasteries were turned into a kind of educational building. So it was with St. Andrew's and the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow, which annually contain up to 400 homeless babies. From the public purse (in the modern sense of the state budget) to carry out "babies on day three money." Capital, of course, not great, but for a child that was enough, because tempered yet and products. Particular attention is Pyotr I paid to have resigned and left without means of war. Decree defines a number of provisions that facilitate the account, "the chief and petty officers and men of dragoons and soldiers who are due to old age and decrepitude of the testimony of the military collegium of the service to be no good, and their food have not."