Students of Barnaul in the practice of charity work during the First World War

Author(s):  
Olesya M. Dolidovich ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Tsetsyk ◽  

In the article on the basis of archival documents the main directions of charity work in Volyn province during the First World War are analyzed. It has been found that they have played a leading role in organizing and assisting wounded and sick soldiers. To this end, hospitals were opened and maintained at the expense of local governments, educational institutions of various types and philanthropists. It is determined that the imperial authorities have strongly encouraged the population of the region to do this activity, including students and teachers of educational institutions. Particular attention is given to the organization of shelters for homeless children, whose numbers began to increase rapidly after the evacuation and forced eviction of civilians as a result of the Russian army's retreat in the summer of 1915, and the role of the Orthodox clergy in this was analyzed. Using the documents of the study period, it was proved that the imperial authorities encouraged the people of Volyn to do charity for the benefit of the military, as evidenced by a number of circulars. However, as a result of hostilities in the province and the policies of the Russian military command, the majority of the population became impoverished and unable to do charity work. This situation indicates serious miscalculations by the imperial authorities and the military. But despite the shortcomings and shortcomings, charitable activities have played an important role in helping the various sections of the population most affected by hostilities in the country.


2000 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
R. Soloviy

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.


2020 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Magdalena Strąk

The work aims to show a peculiar perspective of looking at photographs taken on the eve of the broadly understood disaster, which is specified in a slightly different way in each of the literary texts (Stefan Chwin’s autobiographical novel Krótka historia pewnego żartu [The brief history of a certain joke], a poem by Ryszard Kapuściński Na wystawie „Fotografia chłopów polskich do 1944 r.” [At an exhibition “The Polish peasants in photographs to 1944”] and Wisława Szymborska’s Fotografia z 11 września [Photograph from September 11]) – as death in a concentration camp, a general concept of the First World War or a terrorist attack. Upcoming tragic events – of which the photographed people are not yet aware – become for the subsequent recipient an inseparable element of reality contained in the frame. For the later observers, privileged with time perspective, the characters captured in the photograph are already victims of the catastrophe, which in reality was not yet recorded by the camera. It is a work about coexistence of the past and future in the field of photography.


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