Charitable Institutions of the Yenisei Province in the 1820s–1860s (Based on the Database Materials)

The article attempts to determine the trends in the development of charitable institutions in the Yenisei province in the 1820s-1860s through statistical data.The choice of the chronological framework of the study is due to their poor knowledge, the peculiarities of the socio-economic life of the Yenisei province and the administrative policy of the tsarist government.The process of the emergence and activity of charitable institutions was determined by a combination of economic, political and social factors specific to this region.The Yenisei province belonged to the agricultural sector, industry and trade were poorly developed in it.Both archaic and feudal socio-economic structures, as well as elements of the capitalist type, were combined here at the same time.With the involvement of modern scientific achievements, based on a thematic database, which is a multi-species collection of sources, the authors characterize the network of charitable institutions of the Yenisei province through their varieties, give a quantitative and qualitative analysis.The article notes that the number of charitable institutions was not proportional to the number of settlements and residents in them.The ratio of the number of charitable institutions in the city and in the countryside was in favor of the city.The distribution of charitable institutions of medical care for the population living outside cities was the least favorable.An important place in the system of public charity was occupied by almshouses, which, as a special type of closed charity, had to ensure the full maintenance of their contingent.Meanwhile, in practice, there were more almshouses in which the assistance provided did not cover all the vital needs of a person, but only some of them.