Alekseevskoe Society of Mercy Community of St. George - 1900s
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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events
Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Алексеевское общество дел милосердия община Св.Георгия Санкт-Петербургской епархии 1900-1910 Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs The Alekseevskoe Society of Mercy The Community of St. George Diocese of St. Petersburg 1900-1910 The Alekseevskoe Society of Mercy on Assumption Island was one of the largest charities in the St. Petersburg diocese in the late XIX and early XX centuries. The Society was Archpriest Alexei Bell (February 20, 1836 - January 29, 1902). He purchased the island from the state and built soon after a poorhouse, orphanage and hospital. The stone built Church of the Assumption was constructed in 1876 with a chapel in the name of Tikhon of Zadonsk. Following his death and by order of Emperor Nicholas II, the Society became a public charitable institution. Following the Revolution, the island became the home for juvenile delinquents, and then a nursing home, which lasted until 1964. Music: The Andantino from Symphony No. 1 by Sergei Taneyev
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