Medal Russia 100th anniversary of the Imperial Women's Patriotic Society
Jubilee medal in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Women's Patriotic Society. Diameter - 63.5 mm. Reasonable suggestions are considered favorably :. Formed by decree of Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna on December 29, 1812 in St.
Petersburg under the name "Society of Patriotic Ladies" for "assistance to the poor, those affected by the war". Received the name of St. Petersburg at the end of the same year. The first Council of the Society included.
Each of the ladies of the society took into her care some part of the city, having with her one assistant and one alms collector. Among the first to join the society were.Wife of the Moscow Governor General Tatyana Vasilyevna Golitsyna. Chief chamberlain's wife Maria Alekseevna Naryshkina.
Wife of the President of the Academy of Arts Elizaveta Markovna Olenina. Wife of the future Decembrist Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya. Mother of the Decembrists Ekaterina Fedorovna Muravyova. Wife of the poet Daria Alekseevna Derzhavina. Maid of honor Maria Aleksevna Svistunova.Turgenev became the secretary of the society. In order to care for orphans left by parents devastated by the war, the Society established the'Orphan School' for the children of headquarters and chief officers, which in 1822 was renamed the Patriotic Institute and transferred to the jurisdiction of the'Committee for the Wounded'.
From 1816 to 1829, the Society operated the women's educational institution'House of Diligence' (later the Elizabethan School). Charity for homeless children laid the foundation for schools that became known as private schools of the Patriotic Society: Vyborg, (from June 1817). In 1817, the first charter of the society was approved, in 1833 - a new one, which more precisely defined the purpose of the society. Since 1829, after the death of Empresses Elizaveta Alekseevna and Maria Feodorovna, the society was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Institutions of Empress Maria. After the February Revolution, all institutions of society entered the system of the established Ministry of Public Charity of the Provisional Government.