Famous Russian people who did good deeds. Ten famous people worthy of emulation
They know good, they remember good, good warms our hearts, but not everyone can do good deeds. It is impossible to say unequivocally who the kindest person in the world is. This article lists several famous people who, through their actions, helped those in need and did not ask for anything in return. They are the kindest people in the world, they should be looked up to and set as an example for children, and, quite possibly, there will be more such people in the future.
There is an expression “kind as Mother Teresa”, and these words speak for themselves. This woman helped the poor and sick, organized the monastic congregation “Missionary Sisters of Love”, was awarded the Nobel Prize in the category “For active help to a suffering person,” but she did not care about the awards.
On August 26, 1910, baby Agnes Gonxhe Bajaxhiu was born. Her parents attended the Catholic Church and helped the poor. Even after her father’s death in 1919, the girl’s mother was not afraid and took six orphans into the family. It is not surprising that in such an atmosphere where harmony and kindness reign, a beautiful girl grew up, who later became Mother Teresa. From childhood, the girl knew her calling. Already at the age of 12, she dreamed of monastic service, heard about poor children in India and wanted to help them.
Mother Teresa did everything out of love for people and tried to help everyone
At the age of 18, Agnes went to live in Ireland, here her dream of becoming a nun came true, the girl was accepted into their ranks by the Irish Sisters of Loreto, and after 2 years she was tonsured as a nun under the name Teresa. The girl chose the name herself, inspired by the actions of a merciful Carmelite nun from Lisieux. In the direction of the order, Nun Teresa went to Calcutta. There was a girls' school called St. Mary's in the town, and it began teaching children to read and write. In 1946, the nun received official permission to help all the needy, poor and disadvantaged of Calcutta, and within 2 years she organized the “Missionary Sisters of Love” community. The monastic congregation began active work; they were engaged in the creation of new shelters and hospitals for seriously ill people, as well as schools for poor people. In each such institution they provided help to all those in need; here it did not matter what nationality or religion the person asking was.
Since 1965, the monastic congregation has been helping not only in India, but also abroad. Today this huge organization is known all over the world. There are 400 of its branches in 111 countries, and more than 700 houses of mercy in 120 countries. The main mission of the congregation is to help those in need, especially in disadvantaged areas or those affected by natural disasters. Mother Teresa provided active assistance until the last days of her life. The nun died on September 5, 1997 in Kolkata.
At the time of her death, the nun was 87 years old; she left a huge mark on history and the hearts of many people.
Diana Francis Spencer possessed a certain magic since childhood; she gave joy and warmth, protected the weak, but at the same time she was modest and shy. Diana graduated from a private school with an average grade; she was always shy to answer in front of the class and timid at the blackboard, but this did not stop her from finding a job. The girl got a job as a teacher's assistant at the Young England kindergarten and soon met Prince Charles of Wales. It was a fairy tale! Charles fell in love with a modest beauty with huge eyes and soon won her heart. After the wedding, Diana became a real princess, but the happiness was short-lived. After the birth of his sons William and Harry, Prince Charles began to cheat on his wife, and their marriage soon fell apart. It was during this period that Diana launched active charitable activities.
Lady Di headed more than 90 charitable foundations, helping the abandoned and disadvantaged. Her attention never ignored either children or old people who needed her help. Just by appearing, she instilled hope in people.
Diana knew how to give warmth with just a smile
The Queen of Hearts, as Lady Di was dubbed, donated huge sums to treat AIDS patients and develop drugs against this terrible disease. Thanks to her activities, numerous hospitals and hospices were built. Cooperation with the International Federation of the Red Cross saved the lives of many seemingly hopelessly ill people.
Princess Diana was friends with Mother Teresa. People called their first meeting "The Meeting of Angels." They teamed up and led several charitable projects together.
Shortly before her death, Princess Diana arrived in Angola on a peacekeeping mission, and what she saw there was horrifying. Due to the civil war, the lands where ordinary people lived were littered with anti-personnel mines. Because of this, many children and old people were left crippled or even died. The country's hospitals were full, there were no beds, people were lying on bare floors.
Lady Di walked through a minefield in protest, and then made a film about anti-personnel mines. She organized a campaign against their use. Diplomats and ministers from most countries around the world supported this idea. The international movement to end the use of landmines won the Nobel Prize in 1997, but, unfortunately, the queen of hearts, Diana, did not see it.
At the ceremony in honor of the award, the audience honored the good Lady Di with a minute of silence
An old man, Dobri Doborev, or, as the children call him, grandfather Dobri, lives in Bulgaria. He lives 25 km from the city of Sofia and walks this distance every day to beg. The old man is dressed in not new, but clean homespun clothes, and has homemade leather shoes on his feet. So what is so kind and good about this person that he was included in the list of the kindest people?
For decades, Dobri Dobrev has been giving everything he earns on the street to orphanages that are unable to pay their bills, and he himself lives solely on his pension. This old man lost his hearing during the Great Patriotic War, but did not even think about spending the collected money on his treatment. This is probably why they call him “The Saint of Bailovo”.
Even the name Dobri Dobrev speaks of the kindness of this man
In our seemingly cruel world there are still many kind people, it is impossible to list them all. This article talks about only three people who, through their actions, helped more than one person in need. These are the people who give good, and there are many of them! It is quite possible that one of them lives nearby. You just have to look around, and maybe even become one of them. Give kindness to people, and it will definitely come back to you!
What is good? For each person, the concept of the word GOOD is different. Having heard this word, one will think about actions, another about help, the third about something else. In the modern world, this word is so strongly suppressed by negativity that many schoolchildren do not know how to correctly answer the question: What is good?
Mother Teresa One of the most famous people who did good and left a huge mark on Earth with their actions and will forever remain in the memory of people is Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa is a name known to people all over the world; it has long become a household name and is associated with mercy, compassion, and love. But how many people know what exactly the famous nun is famous for and why she became the Mother of all the poor, humiliated and helpless?
This modest, fragile woman with a sympathetic heart and hard-working peasant hands always found herself in the hottest spots of the globe to help people, pray for their well-being and say simple kind words that could support them in difficult times. More than one book has been written about her, more than one film has been made. She called herself a pencil in the hands of God, writing a love letter to the world. She lived a difficult life, went through many trials, but her soul remained open to people to whom she gave her love, care and helped in any way she could. “If you want to make the world a better place, go home and love your family!” These words belong to Mother Teresa.
Brief biography She was born on August 26, 1910 in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, into an Albanian family. Her real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was the youngest of three children of Nicola Bojaxhiu, a wealthy building contractor and merchant. Agnes means “born under the star of the Lamb”, pure and innocent. And indeed, this slightly strange girl was different from her peers. Already at the age of fourteen, she told her mother that she wanted to devote her life to serving God and asked permission to become a nun. When she turned eighteen, Agnes left her native Macedonia forever and settled in the capital of Ireland, Dublin, where she became a novice in the monastic order of the Irish Sisters of Loreto, and a few years later she took monastic vows with the name Teresa. Two decades passed in thanksgiving prayers to the Lord and tireless work: Sister Teresa taught at St. Mary's Girls' School, providing education to children from the poorest families, and sang in the church choir. Seeing how people suffered from hunger, dirt and disease, she gradually realized her purpose: to help the disadvantaged in any way possible, to do works of mercy and compassion.
Mother Teresa's 10 commandments 1. People can be unreasonable, illogical and selfish - forgive them anyway. 2. If you show kindness, and people accuse you of secret personal motives, show kindness anyway. 3. If you achieve success, then you may have many imaginary friends and real enemies - still achieve success. 4. If you are honest and frank, then people can deceive you - still be honest and frank. 5. What you have been building for years can be destroyed overnight - continue to build anyway.. 6. If you have found serene happiness, then people may envy you - still be happy 7. The good that you have done today, people will forget tomorrow - do good anyway. 8. Share the best of what you have with people, and they will never have enough of it - still continue to share the best with them. 9. It doesn’t matter who says what about you – accept everything with a smile and continue doing your job. 10. Pray together and remain in unity.
Mother Teresa's main advice The main advice from Mother Teresa to people: “From a material point of view, you have everything in this world, but your heart is sad; don’t worry about what you don’t have, just go and serve people: hold their hands in yours and express love; if you follow this advice, you will shine like a beacon."
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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.
A service company from the American state of Pennsylvania chose a very original and touching way to clean the windows in an orphanage in Pittsburgh. 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 kinds of videos about Russia in the “trash” category with our drunken, fighting fellow citizens, lawlessness on the roads and other attributes of the everyday life of Russians, filmed on DVRs. 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 such case in the history of Forbes.
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, while filming a documentary about the cathedral, a Bulgarian television journalist made a shocking discovery in the church's archives - the most generous private donation the cathedral has ever received - 40,000 euros was made by an old beggar - Dobri's grandfather.
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 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 we will never know about all the good deeds of Grandfather 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 factions 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 despair 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 for a long time and thought about this simple Man with a Capital M!” 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 who sincerely love each other 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.”
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 complete 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 a distance 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 sign 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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“Rus' is not without good people!” Russian people can easily be considered one of the most responsive peoples in the world. And we have someone to look up to.
Okolnichy Fedor Rtishchev
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 the “bright man” that 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 at his own expense. After Rtishchev’s death, his “Life” appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.
Empress Maria Feodorovna
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 the construction of 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 cared for in orphanages, the strong and healthy were cared for 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. Thus, in the Obukhov 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.”
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky
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.” A close friend of 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.
Prince Peter of Oldenburg
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.
Sergey Skirmunt
Retired second lieutenant Sergei Skirmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous for his good deeds, but he was able to build socialism on a single estate.
At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich was painfully pondering his future fate, 2.5 million rubles fell on him 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.
Anna Adler
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” was published.
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, changing the stereotype of their incapacity. Anna Adler just barely lived to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.
Nikolay Pirogov
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 academics to perform 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 the main task of education is to teach how to be human.
