FINANCIAL STATUS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
The issue of poverty among students has been a topic of concern for researchers for over two hundred years now. The article analyzes university student's attitudes towards their low income and highlights the different aspects of the student's financial status, their budget and the sources of its formation, the opportunities of the earnings and types of jobs which students were involved in. There have been studied the peculiarities of the financial mutual aid of the students inside of the cooperation such as the association of fellow-countrymen and charity. In the main part of the article there has been studied the attitude of the students to the financial deprivation and the reasons of the students poverty. University students were far from being a homogeneous group. The early 20th century saw a growth in a number of poor students. However, they perceived their monetary difficulties as temporary and had a certain positive moral effect.