For the 400th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty: Dedicated to Romanov Dynasty’s Charity in Moscow Exhibition Held in the Capital

"Time of a Hope and Tremendous Faith" Moscow Central State Archive’s exhibition, timed to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, is happening within the walls of Moscow City Pedagogical University from the 5th of November to the 5th of December 2013.

The Romanov dynasty had been significantly contributed into the charity practice. The exhibition displays a block of materials about the establishing in 1763 in Moscow the Imperial Foundling Hospital for orphans, children born out of wedlock or abandoned by their needy parents. For 200 years, from the XVIII century until 1917, more than 600 institutions were arranged around the city for charitable donations. Displayed are the documents of first two Moscow hospitals accepting all indigent, regardless their class, patients - the Pavlovsky (1764) and Maryinsky (1806).

Romanov’s public charity were addressed to the Moscow Imperial Archaeological Society, the Imperial Society of Belles-lettres, and the Imperial Academy of Arts, which active member was the Grand Duke Konstantin ("K. R."), the well-known poet and playwright. In the late XIX - early XX century the Imperial Russian Historical Museum of Emperor Alexander III, the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III, the Museum of Applied Knowledge (Technical Museum), and many others were opened.

The exhibition offers audiences rare photographs, as well as the modern renderings of Great Historical Emblem of the Russian Empire and the Historical Coat of Arms of the city of Moscow.