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Are there people on our Earth who know neither wars, nor violence, nor murders? A startling discovery was made by anthropologists. In 1971, on the Philippine Islands, where, it would seem, everything had been explored far and wide, an unknown tribe of people was discovered. It lives separately and does not know that there is a world around it, where there are also others like them. This tribe was called the Tasadei. Tasadao is a mountain above the entrance to a cave on the slope of one of the hills in the wilds of the island of Mindanao. There the Tasadei spend the night.

These people have a very primitive life. Each day they live is not much different from the previous one. Waking up at sunrise, they go down to the stream to wash and have breakfast. Thanks to the rich flora and ponds teeming with tadpoles, small fish and crabs, they always have food at hand and do not need to stock up.

The Tasadays sit down on sun-warmed rocks and begin their meal, feeding each other their prey. At noon, the tribe moves into the shade and spends the rest of the day in peace and quiet.

Only at sunset they go in search of plant food and after a vegetarian dinner (lunch) they take refuge in a cave for the night. Their undisturbed sleep lasts about 12 hours.

This tribe knows neither quarrels nor enmity. When making any decision, they quickly come to a common opinion, so there is no need to appoint chiefs and elders.

Due to the fact that Tasadeans do not have a very good memory, they do not remember random insults and do not hold grudges against their fellows. Couples are created only for love. One marriage for life. The feeling of jealousy is unknown to these amazing people, since they also do not experience betrayal.

In this group of people everyone is equal. After all, they have no property, and they don’t know what money is.

Another remarkable quality of Tasadays is the absence of bad habits (smoking and drinking alcohol). Scientists believe that these people are good-natured and forgiving from birth.

This is how Akimushkin describes their life:

(Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin(May 1, Moscow - January 1, Moscow) - writer, biologist, popularizer of biology, author of popular science books about animal life.)

In the depths of the cave, two fires burn day and night. The Tasadeans do not have a special position of “priests of fire”, who would be in charge of maintaining it. And in general there are no positions or responsibilities: everyone, without coercion, does what he does best or what he likes best.

Let's see how the Tasadays spend their day, what their simple life is like.

As soon as the sun rises, the Tasadei, rubbing their eyes and stretching, slowly descend down the natural potholes and ledges of the lava tuff that makes up the foot of the cave. Mothers carry or lead their children by the hand. The Tasadei have no hierarchy, no advantage or privilege to enter and exit the cave, no ceremonial order.

Let us note here for memory that monkeys have a hierarchy. Obviously, it was also among the Neolithic people - the Cro-Magnons. But their predecessors, judging by the Tasadays, did not have it. This means that hierarchical “bureaucracy” and “honor of rank” are not genetically inherent in people, but developed later, with the formation of a primitive communal and class society (although some anthropologists believe otherwise). We will return to this issue a little later, when we talk about human aggressiveness.

After this small but important digression for understanding the foundations of human psychology, let us return to the Tasadays who awakened from sleep.

Still sleepy, smeared in soot and soot, they go down to the stream. Adults wash themselves and wash off the soot; children are bathed by their mothers.

Then the search for food begins. Tasadei do not stock up on food: the surrounding nature is generous and supplies in abundance everything necessary for food. They find their breakfast right at the doorstep of the house. Children sit on the bank of a stream and hold bags made of leaves in their hands. Men catch fish, crabs, and tadpoles with their hands (the latter are the main dish on the Tasadei menu).

Children and adults settle down where the stones are heated by the sun, where it is warmer. They eat slowly. No one claims to have the most satisfying and plentiful piece. They readily share with each other everything they caught in half an hour.

Basking in the sun. They remember with laughter the successes and failures of the morning hunt for tadpoles. Tasadeans have a short memory, as they say. They remember only recent events, and completely forget what happened 5-6 years ago. In general, good things are remembered better than bad things. Therefore, they do not hold a grudge against each other for long. Involuntary offenses are easily forgiven. I say “involuntary” because the Tasadei do not know how to deliberately cause offense.

Five hours pass unnoticed. The sun rises to its zenith, and the Tasadays move to a shady place. They sit in a close group, usually silently. They don't have any work. There is little entertainment. The midday hours are spent as if in nirvana.

However, one entertainment repeated day after day amuses them during these hours.

Although the Tasadei always keep fires burning in their caves, they can quickly rekindle dry moss if they die out. This is making fire (whose moss will ignite sooner!) and practice, and competition between men, and teaching children a task so necessary in the life of primitive man.

Fire is produced by friction. A pointed stick is inserted into a recess in the board and quickly rotated back and forth in the palms until the wood begins to smoke. Immediately they press dry palm bark and moss to the hole, blow on them, and a fire breaks out! This procedure takes about five minutes.

Shortly before sunset (in the tropics this happens at about 6 p.m.), some Tasadays get up and go into the surrounding jungle in search of fruits, fruits, and most importantly, tubers of wild yams. However, their journey through the forests is not long: they do not go further than three or four kilometers from their native cave. They'll be back soon. The long leaves of uprooted yams hang in a dense pile behind the men’s backs.

Yam tubers are washed in water, baked in hot ashes and eaten.

Lunch and dinner at the Tasadeans, as you can see, are vegetarian. At night, the Tasadei move into a cave to plunge into a peaceful sleep until the morning. They sleep, therefore, almost twelve hours a day, from evening to dawn.

Tomorrow will be the same as the last.

This is how the Tasadeans live “in peace with each other and in harmony with the surrounding nature.” They have no enemies either among people or in nature. Large predators are not found in the Philippines. Only snakes are afraid of the Tasadei. They don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol, and generally don’t fight or kill. They don’t even have any weapons! And stone tools are very simple (Paleolithic type).

Tasadays do not engage in agriculture. They don't have pets either. No crafts, no clothes. Several orchid leaves fastened together replace their loincloth, which is all that covers their body.

The Tasadei have no chiefs or elders. Decisions are made jointly, after a short discussion, and then acted in solidarity. They have no property, neither rich nor poor. They don’t know what money is, what work is (in our understanding). They also do not know divorce, adultery, blood feuds or jealousy. Marriages are made for love, once and for life. And although there are more men in the tribe than women, no one breaks the strong bonds of marriage.

“An anthropologist who observed their quiet life believes that they belong to “the gentlest people on Earth” (E. White and D. Brown).

“No, the Tasadays are just a special case,” Lorenz’s followers continue to object. “Their primitive way of life is not a primary phenomenon, but a secondary one: the Tasadays relatively recently separated from the common root of the Philippine peoples, got lost in the wilderness of the wilds of the island of Mindanao, forgot the cultural skills they possessed, and sank to a much lower level of development.

Therefore, the Tasadays cannot serve for anthropology as a model of our actual ancestor - man of the Old Stone Age. This is just a tiny “big family” of Filipinos who once left their labors and worries into the wild wilderness of the jungle. They are people who fled from people, and not the original links in human evolution.

- Well, what does it matter if the Tasadeans are genetically not an ancient link in the chain of human generations, but a modern one? Their way of life can still serve as a model of the behavior of the very first people, since the Tasadays were placed in the same living conditions as in ancient times, and because of this, according to the law of convergence, they acquired many features of the life of primitive people...

P.S.
Some anthropologists believe that the first people were just as meek from birth. They led the same life as the Tasadays. Later, those of them who migrated to the north, to regions poor in food and rich in enemies, armed themselves with a club and a spear. But even here people remained non-aggressive for a long time. Fratricidal fights, robberies, and wars began much later with the development of the primitive communal system.

However, there is another point of view in science.

Some scientists, including such a famous ethologist as K. Lorenz, believe that aggressiveness is immanent in humans, it is a heavy legacy of our animal ancestors. Aggressiveness, according to Lorenz, will always possess a person and manifest itself in violence and other bad deeds, if society does not find another reasonable expression for it. If he doesn't find it, it will be terrible! Man's natural aggressiveness will destroy him in the end.

What's interesting here is this. The discovery of the Tasadeans and the study of their way of life tilts the opinion of most scientists in favor of the first hypothesis: man was not born with an animal nature! He is a peaceful creature in his original essence.
Let them argue...

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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 Dobri, 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 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 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.”

“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.

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 personally carried out operations and tirelessly ensured that the soldiers were provided with everything they needed: warm blankets, food, water.

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.

Hollywood stars are always in the spotlight: photographers, interviews, journalists, filming, every day, as if under the gun of one large camera, which records their successes, failures, bad or good deeds, and then spreads this news around the world, providing food for thoughts or gossip. Usually people discuss the crazy or bad deeds of stars, their extravagances and obvious mistakes, while good deeds are somehow hushed up and go into the shadows. Let's try to prove that the kindest people in the world- just Hollywood stars.

First among the kindest

Turns out, the kindest people in the world those related to show business and the film industry are Johnny Depp, Jerry Halliwell, Renee Zellweger, Colin Farrell, Jessica Simpson, football player David Beckham, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Oprah Winfrey. And now more about them. Rating " The kindest people in the world" was headed by the incomparable and versatile actor Johnny Depp, who, both in films and in life, always looks quite non-trivial, unusual and extremely sexy. Although his inconstancy and extravagance are known to everyone, nevertheless, for many years Johnny has been living in a happy marriage with one single woman - singer Vanessa Paradis. The star of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and alternative cinema, Depp recently helped his fan, seventeen-year-old Sophie Wilkinson, come out of a coma.

The voice of a star returns from the other world

The girl was in a coma for about five months, and her parents had already begun to lose all hope that their daughter would come to her senses, having already tried literally everything. There was only one remedy left, funny at first glance - the voice of their daughter’s favorite actor, that is, Depp. They wrote a touching letter for Depp, asking him, if not to come to their daughter himself, then at least to record his voice. This is what Johnny did, recording an audio track where he parodied his most famous character - Captain Jack Sparrow. Hearing this voice, Sophie moved her legs for the first time, and then began the story of her gradual recovery.

Melody will save lives

And this story is not the only one of its kind. Former member of the once popular Spice Girls group, Geri Halliwell, sang for one of her unusual fans. Jessica Knight is fourteen years old and suffered a severe stroke that left her bedridden. Jeri came to her clinic, where she sang just a couple of lines from her song, after which the girl began to control her arms and legs. Now, according to some sources, Jessica feels much better, but she just doesn’t remember what specific song the lead singer of “Pepperchinok” sang to her.

Seller of good mood

The kindest people in the world, such as actress Renee Zellweger, who is known for her films about the charming Bridget Jones, they not only save people’s lives, but also help others fulfill their wishes. Once the actress walked into the Wendy's brand store, where she noticed a saleswoman looking longingly at shoes from the famous designer Manolo Blahnik. The actress said that she perfectly understood a woman’s desire to be beautiful always and everywhere, and so she...bought these shoes, and then, when the saleswoman returned to her workplace, she anonymously gave them to her, simply wrapping them beautifully and putting them on her desk.

American dream

Title " The kindest people in the world“The desperate boor Colin Farel and the scandalous TV presenter Oprah Winfrey were also honored. For the past five years, Colin Farrell has been helping a man without a job or place of residence, a professional beggar named Stress, with money and clothes. And the TV personality surprised everyone at one of her shows, where she gave each viewer a car, and one homeless girl - money to get a decent education, as well as for clothes and a beauty salon. Probably, it is precisely stories like these that constitute the essence of such a phenomenon as the “American Dream”, when not a single desire is limited by the limits of fantasy.

“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.

The opening of universities, specialized printing houses and schools, helping orphans, the hungry and the homeless is not a complete list of the good deeds of these people, which will be discussed in our material.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 to be human.