How they do it:
“The world has become smaller,” some will say. “People have become cruel,” others will confirm. And only a third will object: “Russia is not without good people.” One cannot but agree with the last expression after reading the stories of these five individuals.
Fedor Mikhailovich Rtishchev
During his lifetime, nobleman Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev received the nickname “gracious husband,” and his name was recorded in the synodics (memorials) of countless monasteries and churches in gratitude for his activities and financial investments.
Fyodor Rtishchev was a friend and ally of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. During his life, he built many schools, shelters for the poor, hospitals, and became the founder of St. Andrew's Monastery. This man, seeing a drunk lying on the pavement, could easily pick him up and take him to a shelter. During the Russian-Polish War, Rtishchev achieved success in peace negotiations with representatives of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the battles, Fyodor Mikhailovich carried both his own and the enemy from the battlefield. He hired doctors with his own money and bought food for the wounded and prisoners.
F. M. Rtishchev at the Monument “1000th Anniversary of Russia” in Veliky Novgorod.
Most of all, his contemporaries remembered the incident when in 1671, during a severe famine in Vologda, Rtishchev sent there 200 measures of bread, 100 gold and 900 silver rubles. These donations were proceeds from the sale of part of the nobleman's property. When Fyodor Mikhailovich found out that the residents of Arzamas were in desperate need of land, he simply donated his possessions to the city. When Rtishchev died, his “life” appeared in monasteries. This was practically the only case when the righteous life was described, not of a monk, but of a layman.
Anna Adler
Anna Aleksandrovna Adler devoted her entire life to helping children with disabilities. In the 19th century, the activities of charitable foundations were mainly aimed at satisfying only the physical needs of disabled people for food and shelter. They were deprived of the opportunity to realize themselves in society.
Anna Adler herself was involved in educating the blind in order to prove to others that they could study and earn their living just like everyone else. This woman mastered the Braille system, found funds to purchase a printing press in Germany and began creating teaching aids for the blind. In addition to teaching literacy, in schools for the blind, under the patronage of Anna Adler, boys were taught to weave baskets and rugs, and girls were taught to knit and sew. Over time, Anna Alexandrovna translated the notes into a form understandable for the blind, so that they could learn to play musical instruments. The first graduates of the school for the blind in Moscow and St. Petersburg, with the active assistance of Anna Adler, were able to find work. This woman managed to break the established stereotypes about the incapacity of the blind.
Nikolay Pirogov
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov became famous as a brilliant surgeon, naturalist, and teacher. Already at the age of 26 he was appointed professor at the University of Dorpat. Pirogov devoted his entire life to saving people. The soldiers called him a wizard who performed miracles right on the battlefield.
Nikolai Ivanovich was the first to distribute the wounded on the battlefield, immediately deciding who would be sent to the hospital first and who would get off lightly. This practice has made it possible to significantly reduce the amputation of limbs and the mortality rate of soldiers. During operations, Pirogov was the first in Russia to use anesthesia, thereby relieving the wounded of excruciating pain.
In addition to performing his direct duties, Nikolai Pirogov carefully ensured that warm blankets and food were delivered to the soldiers. When, after the end of the Crimean War, Nikolai Ivanovich had an audience with Emperor Alexander II, he began to talk in his hearts about backwardness Russian army and its weapons. After this conversation, Pirogov was sent from the capital to serve in Odessa, which can be regarded as a manifestation of the sovereign’s disfavor.
Pirogov did not despair and directed all his energy to pedagogical activity. The scientist zealously opposed class education and the use of corporal punishment. “Being a human being is what education should lead to,” this is exactly what Pirogov believed. Unfortunately, Pirogov met with decisive rebuff from officials. All students spoke of him as a brilliant teacher who cared not only about their education, but about instilling high moral qualities.
Sergey Skirmunt
In the second half of the 19th century there lived a certain Sergei Apollonovich Skirmunt. He was serving as an army second lieutenant when a fortune fell on him. From a deceased distant relative, the 30-year-old officer received 2.5 million rubles, land and farmsteads. But, unlike many people who suddenly became rich, Skirmunt did not go to great lengths.
He donated part of the money to charity. On his Crimean estate, the newly-minted landowner decided to improve the living conditions of the peasants. New houses were built to replace the dilapidated shacks. A hospital and a school also appeared there. Needless to say, the residents of the estate prayed daily for the health of the landowner.
Vladimir Odoevsky
The noble origin of the writer and philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky did not prevent him from showing sincere participation in the destinies of people of the lower classes. The prince actively advocated the abolition of serfdom.
Odoevsky organized the Society for Visiting the Poor, which provided assistance to 15 thousand poor families. Those in need or the elderly could go to the community and receive medical care there. Prince Odoevsky was called a “strange scientist” whose main quality was virtue.
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True stories from the lives of people with different destinies, lives and worldviews, but united by one big heart.
1. Dima is a teenager, no different from other guys like him. Nothing but kindness and sensitivity to absolutely to strangers. One day he needed to visit the military registration and enlistment office. He didn’t have money for the bus, so he had to walk. It was in February. Having walked quite a bit from the house, from afar he saw a woman lying in the snow. At first Dima thought that she was drunk, but when he approached her, he saw an elderly woman. Although there were many passers-by on the street, no one except Dima paid attention to her. The teenager came up and slowly picked her up. She said she was walking to church when she slipped and fell. Dima brought the woman home, although he had to deviate from the given route by two stops. As a token of gratitude, she tried to give the guy money for travel. But Dima refused - that’s not why he helped her.
2. Love for animals can be limitless. Steve Craig, an accountant from Denver, knows this firsthand. A month after the death of his beloved dog, he began to feel depressed. Then Steve decided to take old, sick dogs from the shelter, who are unlikely to attract anyone's attention and whose fate, alas, is predictable. First, he adopted a twelve-year-old Chihuahua with a heart murmur and painful joints. Now he has 10 elderly dogs living at home. “I’m very happy that I was able to make these animals happy,” says Steve.
3. It’s no secret what exotic food they eat in South Korea. At their meat market you can find any animal, including dogs. Two-year-old dog Chi-Chi, hanging upside down in a dark room, was constantly beaten to make her meat more tender. However, for unknown reasons, it did not become another delicacy on someone’s table. She was simply left to die in a garbage bag. Fortunately, Chi-Chi was saved, but all of her legs had to be amputated. And after two months at the veterinary clinic, the dog found a family in Phoenix, Arizona.
4. Dreams tend to come true. It also came true for twelve-year-old Emily Tammen, who suffers from autism, attention deficit disorder and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The girl's joints suffer due to this disease. Emily came to the concert of her favorite singer Adele with a poster “My dream is to sing with Adele.” The singer noticed this ad and invited the girl to the stage, offering to perform the hit “Someone Like You.”
5. You don't need to be a superhero to save lives. At one of the baseball games, player Andrew McCutcheon from the Pirates team slipped his bat. It flew straight into the boy's forehead. An unknown “superhero” wearing glasses deflected the blow of the bat by putting up his hand. Having flown around the boy's head, the bat still hit him on the back of the head. But this was not at all the blow that the unfortunate guy could have received.
6. Friendship between a penguin and a human is possible. In 2001, a pensioner saved a tiny penguin. He lay dying on the rocks, covered in oil. The man picked up the poor animal, cleaned its feathers of oil and fed it fish every day until the penguin gained strength. This was the beginning of their long and strong friendship.
7. There are also firefighters among dogs. Burnt puppy Jake, rescued from a fire by Bill Linder, became a firefighter. Baby Jake was just a few weeks old when he found himself in a burning barn. He received burns on 75% of his body, which forced his owners to abandon him. Then Bill's family decided to take him for themselves. Now Jake, together with his owner, conducts fire safety lessons in schools.
8. “You can’t see the most important things with your eyes,” said Exupery. Mr. Kuroki, a Japanese dairy farmer, spent two years trying to lift his blind wife out of depression. Having planted a giant flower bed, he pulled her outside, thereby making her smile.
9. Sometimes even a fire can end a wedding. A firefighter rescued a girl from a burning house. Unfortunately, he suffered a leg injury; doctors said that the man would no longer be able to walk normally. But 28 years later, he walked their daughter down the aisle.
10. “Five years ago I adopted a dog from a shelter that was about to be euthanized. Now this dog saves my life every day. I suffer from a neurological condition that causes seizures. My dog knows in advance about the next attack and warns me about it.”
Maria Ryzhova
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P Remember the song of the old woman Shapoklyak from the cartoon about the crocodile Gena: " Good deeds You can't become famous." Unfortunately, in modern world Negative events and actions are of greater interest than good deeds. But the people from our article do good simply because they have a pure heart and this makes their souls happier. Do good no matter what!
About the victory of good
This story began when Glen James, a homeless man from Boston, found a backpack with a large sum in cash. He was very lucky, but the man did not lose his head and handed over the find to the police so that the money could be returned to the owner. The owner of the backpack was so shocked by what happened that he organized a campaign to raise money for the man. On at the moment they collected twice the amount found. Glen James, who lost his home and job eight years ago, said he wouldn't take a penny from what he found even if he was desperate.
Friendship + car = good
Many girls dream of a little black dress, but Chandler Lacefield always dreamed of a big red car. But when her parents gave her a red jeep, she decided to sell her dream car in order to buy two: one for herself, and the second for a friend from a poor family.
Welcome to the subway
In the Canadian subway, the turnstile was broken and none of the workers were there. This is what passengers left at the entrance.
Valuable note
Entrance to a house in Helsinki. The inscription reads: “20 euros. Found in the entrance between the 1st and 2nd floors on September 11 at 18.30.”
Kindness in Russian
Kind-hearted grandmother
A Kolmyk grandmother knitted 300 pairs of warm socks for flood victims. As you know, there are no small good deeds, and once again we find confirmation of this in the wonderful news from Magadan. A local resident, pensioner Rufina Ivanovna Korobeinikova, knitted and donated them to flood victims in Khabarovsk three hundred pairs of warm socks.
Over the course of several years, the elderly woman knitted about two thousand woolen products, which were donated to the pupils orphanage and to a nursing home. Since things knitted by a merciful grandmother were usually given to those in need at Christmas, over time a very warm tradition of “woolen gifts” developed in local shelters, and Rufina Ivanovna was already knitting new socks for the upcoming holiday when the flood began in Khabarovsk.
Rufina Ivanovna, having heard in the news about the tragedy associated with the flood, decided that now her “woolen gifts” are more important to the victims, because many people were left not only without housing, but also without clothes.
Written gratitude to dad
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Farewell screensaver
The creators of The Simpsons said a touching goodbye to the late actress Marcia Wallans, who voiced Edna Krabappel. In the last intro for the cartoon, Bart is practicing his spelling as usual, but this time the reason is sad. The inscription on the board: "We will miss you very much, Mrs. K."
Kim Kjellstrom comforts an autistic boy
This happens before the start of the match with the German national team. Little Max was frightened by what was happening, and the football player supported him. Later, the boy's father wrote a touching letter of gratitude to Kim.
Pope Francis hugs a mutilated man
Many people love the new pope because he follows his motto and leads a modest lifestyle, refuses unnecessary honors and is truly open to everyone ordinary people who need his support. For the first time in for many years this post was occupied by a man who is ready to share the sorrows of the world and console the weak.
The Scorpions singer sang the song Holiday to his fan over the phone
The Scorpions group was on tour in Moscow. At this time, a message from a charitable foundation appeared on social networks that a fan of the group, who was in a Moscow hospice with a serious diagnosis, dreamed of going to their concert. Within a day, the message received several thousand reposts, and Klaus Meine, vocalist of Scorpions, found a way out of the situation. If Alexey cannot attend the concert, he will hear his favorite band over the phone.
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The most touching actions that prove that the world is not without good people.
In this world of wars, rallies and political upheavals, it is very important to remain human and be able to help out in difficult times. Sometimes doing a good deed is not at all difficult, but many people simply pretend not to notice anything, although they know perfectly well that they could help. But even the smallest kind deed would bring more love and joy than all the riches in the world.
In this collection website I decided to collect the best acts of kindness from 2013. We present to your attention the stories that have captured the hearts of people around the world.
Service company from American state Pennsylvania chose a very original and touching way to clean the windows at a Pittsburgh orphanage. The employees descending from the roof from floor to floor were dressed in superhero costumes - Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and Captain America.
It’s no secret that the Internet is replete with all sorts of videos about Russia in the “trash” category with our drunken, fighting fellow citizens, lawlessness on the roads and other attributes everyday life Russians filmed on video recorders. But Arkady Moryakhin from Almaty decided to show that in Russia there are not only reckless drivers and drunk driving, but also people who do good deeds and help each other for no reason at any time of the day.
Famous writer JK Rowling lost her billionaire status because she spent so much money on charity. This is the first similar case in Forbes history.
A real-life incident that happened in the American town of Fresno will make your heart beat faster. Regular firefighter Corey Kalanick was checking in a smoke-filled room after a fire when he suddenly saw this small ball of fur showing no signs of life.
12 thousand city residents fulfilled the dream of five-year-old Miles Scott. The performance was organized by the Make a Wish charity, which grants wishes to terminally ill children. The fact is that the boy has leukemia. He has been undergoing treatment for several years and is now in remission.
98-year-old beggar Grandfather Dobri from the Bulgarian village of Bailovo, dressed in homespun clothes and ancient leather boots, often stands outside the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia. Every day he gets up early and walks 10 kilometers from his home to the capital. In 2010, during filming documentary film about the cathedral, a Bulgarian television journalist made a shocking discovery in the church archives - the most generous private donation the cathedral has ever received - 40,000 euros was made by an old beggar - Grandfather Dobri.
The 98-year-old saint does not touch a single penny of the money that is handed to him. He lives on his pension of 100 euros a month, as well as on non-monetary handouts in the form of fruit and bread. Grandfather Dobri also helps many others, for example, he paid the utility bills of an orphanage that was on the verge of losing heat and electricity. He also helps the homeless. But about everyone good deeds We will never know Grandpa Dobry because he never talks about them.
Red Mark was one of the most famous Dutch fans. At the beginning of 2000, he managed to unite opposing groups of Feyenoord fans. Before the start of preparations for the new season, sad news came - Red Mark is terminally ill. The doctors gave him a month at best, a week at worst. In just a few days, an unforgettable event was organized for Red Mark, who had been a Feyenoord fan for 41 years.
Good granny
Magadan resident Rufina Ivanovna Korobeinikova knitted and donated three hundred pairs of warm socks to flood victims in Khabarovsk.
In October
Who sleeps sweetly on the shoulder of an unfamiliar passenger in the subway has spread all over the Western Internet. Inspired by this touching act, the charity Charidy decided to conduct its experiment in the New York subway. The hero of the video pretended to be tired for an hour, falling asleep on the shoulders of the passengers sitting next to him. At first the passengers waved it off, but then...
The homeless man returned his wallet
“Today, having left home early in the morning in order to avoid traffic jams, I went to pick up my mother, so that later we could go to the dacha together. Having gathered all my most loved ones together, I was ready to go to the dacha, when suddenly I discovered that my wallet with ALL the documents for the car, license, cards, passport had disappeared - in short, my whole life had disappeared without a trace. I returned home in desperation and suddenly a stranger rang at my door. At first glance, he is an ordinary homeless person, but with clear, kind eyes. He said hello, introduced himself, and after the phrase “You must have been knocked off your feet...” handed me my wallet. Silent scene. With shaking hands, I begin to rummage through my wallet and realize that everything is there, even the money! My husband immediately handed him the money, which he refused! You see, a man with no fixed abode found a wallet on the highway, got on the train, then the metro, then a minibus, and searched for my house for an hour just to help. He left, and we stood and thought about it for a long time. a simple man with a capital letter!” Irina Demidova.
An ordinary American couple who arrived at a gas station gave us all an amazing and unexpected lesson in the joy of life. Will is a bartender, Monifa is a fitness trainer, and they have been married for 12 years. Simple, cheerful, open people, sincerely loving friend friend and life, who know how to enjoy every moment, even such an unexpected one. Instead of being shy and modest, they put on a fantastically funny, kind and touching show near their car, captivating first the host and TV viewers, and then the entire Internet.
Rescuer
Serbian Renato Grbic, 51, from Belgrade, owner of a restaurant near the Danube Bridge, has saved 25 people trying to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge over the past 15 years. After Renato pulled the first suicide from the water, his small motor boat is always ready. “While I’m working, I always watch the bridge - I just can’t turn my back on those who decide to voluntarily take their own lives,” says Renato. Seven years ago, in mid-January, he pulled an 18-year-old girl from the water. It turned out that she lives next door. Now the girl comes to his restaurant every year to celebrate her birthday. And a couple of years later she invited him to the wedding. “Every time I see her, my heart beats faster,” the rescuer admits.
“My husband and I also met a very kind person. Last winter, during Cyclone Javier, when all the roads and yards were covered with snow up to the tops of cars, our car was also quite covered in snow. There were no shovels at home, the stores had also sold out everything, we collected everything that was more or less digging at home, we went out, and our car stood dug up and with a smooth path to the exit. And there’s a note under the wiper.”
“Rus' is not without good people!” Russian people can easily be considered one of the most responsive peoples in the world. On the pages of history you can find many characters who throughout their lives tried to make the world a little better. Among them are doctors, military men, nobles, and even royalty.
Opening universities, specialized printing houses and schools, helping orphans, the hungry and the homeless is far from full list the good deeds of these people, which will be discussed in our material.
During his lifetime, Fyodor Rtishchev, a close friend and adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, received the nickname “gracious husband.” Klyuchevsky wrote that Rtishchev fulfilled only part of the commandment of Christ - he loved his neighbor, but not himself.
He was one of that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own “wants.” It was on the initiative of " bright man“The first shelters for beggars appeared not only in Moscow, but also beyond its borders. It was common for Rtishchev to pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter he organized - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station.
How many were saved from death and did not freeze to death on the street, one can only guess. In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain convoys to starving Vologda, and then money raised from the sale of personal property. And when I learned about the need of the Arzamas residents for additional lands, he simply donated his own.
During the Russian-Polish War, he carried out not only his compatriots, but also Poles from the battlefield. He hired doctors, rented houses, bought food and clothing for the wounded and prisoners, again using his own funds. After Rtishchev’s death, his “Life” appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.
The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayer and strong coffee, the Empress devoted the rest of the day to taking care of her countless pupils.
She knew how to convince moneybags to donate money for construction educational institutions For noble maidens in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Simbirsk and Kharkov.
With her direct participation, the largest charitable organization was created - the Imperial Humane Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century. Having 9 children of her own, she especially cared for abandoned babies: the sick were nursed in educational homes, the strong and healthy - in trustworthy peasant families. This approach has significantly reduced child mortality.
With all the scale of her activities, Maria Feodorovna also paid attention to the little things that were not necessary for life. So, in Obukhovskaya psychiatric hospital In St. Petersburg, each patient received his own kindergarten. Her will contains the following lines: “Give life to Your Spirit through meekness, love and mercy. Be helpers and benefactors to the suffering and the poor.”
A descendant of the Rurikovichs, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, was convinced that the thought he sowed would certainly “come up tomorrow” or “in a thousand years.” Close friend Griboyedov and Pushkin, the writer and philosopher Odoevsky was an active supporter of the abolition of serfdom, worked to the detriment of his own interests for the Decembrists and their families, and tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged.
He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who turned to him and saw in everyone a “living string” that could be made to sound for the benefit of the cause. The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, which he organized, helped 15 thousand needy families. There was a women's workshop, a children's shelter with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.
Despite his origin and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a “minor position” he could bring “real benefit.” The “Strange Scientist” tried to help young inventors realize their ideas. The main character traits of the prince, according to contemporaries, were humanity and virtue.
An innate sense of justice distinguished the grandson of Paul I from most of his colleagues. He not only served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment during the reign of Nicholas I, but also equipped the first school in the history of the country at his place of service, in which soldiers’ children were educated.
Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments. In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through a line of soldiers, after which he petitioned for dismissal, saying that he would never be able to carry out such orders. Pyotr Georgievich devoted the rest of his life to charity. He was a trustee and honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv Home for the Poor.
Retired second lieutenant Sergei Skirmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous good deeds, but was able to build socialism on a single estate.
At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich was painfully thinking about future fate, he received 2.5 million rubles from a deceased distant relative. The inheritance was not spent on carousing or lost at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Public Entertainment, the founder of which was Skirmunt himself. With the rest of the money, the millionaire built a hospital and a school on the estate, and all his peasants were able to move to new huts.
The whole life of this amazing woman was devoted to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, and on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district.
But her main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with disabilities. For 45 years, she did everything to ensure that blind people had the opportunity to become full-fledged members of society.
She was able to find the means and strength to open the first specialized printing house in Russia, where in 1885 the first edition of the “Collection of Articles for children's reading, published and dedicated to blind children by Anna Adler."
To produce the book in Braille, she worked seven days a week until late at night, personally typing and proofreading page after page. Later, Anna Alexandrovna translated the musical notation system, and blind children were able to learn to play musical instruments.
With her active assistance, a few years later the first group of blind students graduated from the St. Petersburg School for the Blind, and a year later - from the Moscow School.
Literacy and vocational training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotypical idea of their incapacity. Anna Adler just barely lived to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.
The entire life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, the practical use of which saved more than one life. The men considered him a wizard who attracted higher powers for his “miracles.”
He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and his decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. Through his efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.
He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into those who were seriously injured and those who would make it to the rear. This reduced the mortality rate significantly. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound to the arm or leg could result in amputation. He personally carried out operations and tirelessly ensured that the soldiers were provided with everything they needed: warm blankets, food, water.
According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academicians to conduct plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of implanting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped get rid of deformity. Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that main task education - teach to be human.
