Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia

by David L. Ransel

Book Overview

At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it supervised over 40,000 children in Moscow province and six adjoining provinces. Established by Empress Catherine II in the middle of the eighteenth century, the two central foundling homes (the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069160035X
• ISBN13: 9780691600352
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"