The laws of ancient Russia, we find ...

The laws of ancient Russia, we find that its "legal" justification for such protection. Trusteeship for the poor, the sick, the homeless are even the Grand Duchess Olga. Her kindness to the weak thread that runs through many of the fossil record. Writes about it, in particular, and Nestor, author of The Tale of Bygone Years ". But of particular importance for public charity and philanthropy as a state structure was the Charter of Prince Vladimir (996). It was he identified public assistance as one of the main functions of the state. This charter became the basis for the device charities in Russia until the XVIII century. Statutes of Prince Vladimir was based on the rules and laws of the Orthodox Greek Church, "Rules of the Local Council" (347 was): "The bishops must point to help orphans, widow, widows and the poor, and strangers and strange from the church so eat, and any land so priemlyayut . These same ideas we follow and in the famous paper of Vladimir, it is determined that the tithe was for the maintenance of monasteries and churches, almshouses, hospitals, hospice homes. Tithes were taxes: the loan of cases of trafficking, from the harvest, etc. Prince Vladimir opens, like his grandmother - Princess Olga, a number of almshouses and hospice homes in Kiev. In honor of his marriage to the Byzantine emperor's sister Anna, he pitches in the same church in the name of the Blessed Virgin, which has become a haven for all suffering. Vladimir commanded at the church from its treasury to feed the poor, strange, orphans and widows. After the victory over the Pechenegs as the chronicle tells the prince "commanded every poor and needy prihoditi the yard vzimati reign and all will require food and Yaden. And he then Prince Vladimir: "For the infirm and the sick can not dolezti my yard. And he commanded to attach the stake (carts) and vsklad bread and meat and fish, and vegetables raznolichnye, and honey in barrels, and other kvass haul around town, ask: where the sick and poor, and unfit to go? And so razdalhu needful ...». Grand Prince Yaroslav Vladimirovich, who took the throne in 1016, remained true to the traditions of his father. As legend says, Yaroslav was "as He and his father and hristolyubiv nischelyubiv. One of the first acts of charity Yaroslav was a statement on his personal funds Orphan School, where they were kept and studied 300 pupils. Taking care of an orphan is the foundation of his public activities. In gratitude, the story called it wisely. During the reign of Yaroslav the ancient Russian monastery flourished medicine. Reverend Anthony Domiano, Theodosius of the Caves are the pride of ancient medicine, for which the charity in the name of charity patients, beggars, homeless people were her constituents. So, the Reverend Theodosius to shelter the poor, blind, lame and lepers built near his monastery (Kiev-Pechersk Lavra) house with the Church of St. Stephen, and singled out for its maintenance tenth of all the monastic revenues. Care of patients suffering and was one of the main duties of Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh.