Experience of Organizing Charity in Russia: The Department of Empress Maria (the End of the 18-Beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Centuries)
The article covers organizing Russian charity under the patronage of the Russian imperial Romanov's family. The author describes activity of the Department of Empress Maria - one of the charitable departments under the patronage of the Romanovs. The author researches historical experience of charitable social aid provided by the Department of Empress Maria.