CHARITABLE ACTIVITY OF THE BESSARABIAN NOBLES (MIDDLE OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES)

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of reflection of the charitable work of the representatives of the Bessarabian nobility during the military conflicts of the Russian empire of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the periodic press. Messages on this topic, which were printed during the war on the pages of local newspapers such as «Bessarabian Regional Gazette», «Bessarabian Provincial Gazette», «Kishinev Diocesan Journal», «Bessarabets», «Bessarabian Life» were analyzed. The illumination of the charitable work of the Bessarabian nobility on the pages of periodicals as a whole was of a very important informational and propaganda significance. The main forms of assistance were money and material donations, mainly aimed at solving the sanitary needs of the army (the arrangement of hospitals, medical trains, etc.), medical care, the maintenance of sick and wounded soldiers until their full recovery, support for the families of dead soldiers. The prospect of further scientific research is seen in the in-depth study of the charitable activities of the Bessarabian aristocracy during the military conflicts of the Russian Empire from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.