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Wikipedia: The Moscow Orphanage or Foundling Home was an ambitious project conceived by Catherine the Great and Ivan Betskoy, in the early 1760s. This idealistic experiment of the Age of Enlightenment was intended to manufacture "ideal citizens" for the Russian state by bringing up thousands of abandoned children to a very high standard of refinement, cultivation, and professional qualifications. Despite more than adequate staffing and financing, the Orphanage was plagued by high infant mortality and ultimately failed as a social institution.
![[Karl Blank's plans for the Orphanage, 1760s]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Vospitatelny_Dom_in_Moscow_1763_s.jpg "Karl Blank's plans for the Orphanage, 1760s")
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![[The Orphanage, 2007]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Wiki_Moscow_Orphanage_2C_Moskvoretskaya_Embankment_s.jpg "The Orphanage, 2007")
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![[Portrait of Ivan Betskoy.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Betskoy_Ivan_Ivanovich2_s.jpg "Portrait of Ivan Betskoy.")
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![[The building of the Board of Trustees was erected shortly before Maria's death]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Wiki_Solyanka_Opekunsky_Sovet_by_Giliardi_and_Grigoriev_s.jpg "The building of the Board of Trustees was erected shortly before Maria's death")
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