Western Europe

What today is a hallmark of the modern developed countries? Someone says growth in gross domestic product, someone will remember about the level of earnings received by those who do "hang", painfully trying find the correct answer. But few mention charity, which aims to "balance" the rigidity of the market and overall race for profits. In Europe, it has a scope of "charitable industry" – whole sphere of culture, education and "social sphere" exist only on donations from individuals and corporations. It is somewhere there in the West, the laws encourage philanthropy, reducing taxes. In our country, it is still "wild" market – an exotic type of activity that exists somewhere on the periphery of public consciousness … In Tsarist Russia impulse of charity first seen during the reign of Peter I. Personal impressions of the king, received during his visits to Western Europe, as well as his reforms helped to attract the educated part of the Russian nobility to the charity to build hospitals, orphanages and schools. Beginnings Peter I have evolved under Catherine II, and then at the end of XIX – early XX century.

A lot of money invested in helping the sick and suffering, in the patronage of artists, writers, artists big industrialists, joint-owners of landed property in the city and the countryside. For some reasons, the Russian philanthropists engaged in this? Give a definite answer is impossible. Perhaps most philanthropists guided by high moral motives of kindness and justice, and Christian morality. Now is the time to look at the current realities.

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