One of the articles of the Statute of the great ...

One of the articles of the Statute of Grand Prince Vladimir ", which appeared in the XII century, states:" A ce sbornyya church of people committed to the Metropolitan and the Bishop: "... a widow, a cripple, lechets, proschenik, zadushny man ... hromets , a blind man. " Pursuant to the Charter in the middle of XI century, the first Russian monastery KievoPecherskoy Laura created a hospital, founded by St. Theodosius. That he has built around the courtyard of the monastery ... and then ordered to be poor and blind and lame, and sick of the monastery ordered to bring them everything they need from the entire property of the monastery gave them the tenth part. " Since that time, almost to the 80s of the XVIII century disdain the mentally ill involved in the Russia Orthodox monasteries. Patients were sent to monasteries for spiritual healing and understanding. This way of charity mentally ill was subsequently legalized by state regulations. The first such act relates to 1551, when the reign of Ivan the Terrible at the Church Council when a new Sudebnik called "Hundred Chapters" was elaborated article on the need for care of the poor and sick, among whom are mentioned, and those "koi possessed by the demon and deprived Reason. State aid was placed in monasteries, "not to be named a hindrance and a bogey for a healthy, but also to give them an opportunity to get chastised or" cast on the truth. " An interesting document, Mikhail Fyodorovich, who "have to send Mikita Uvarov in Kirillov Monastery near the top for what Mikita Uvarov in his mind unhinged." The decree is available and instruction on how to contain it: first, sent to "Nikita Uvarov with a guide, the son boyar Ondronom Isupov, and told that her son boyar Nikita Uvarov to constrained. So, the son of a boyar Ondron Isupov Mikita Uvarov in Kirillov Monastery brought, him to have Mikita Uvarov taken, and told him to keep a strong start, and church music and privately told him to be the rule for all the days to the truth of his cause, and was told to feed him in the trapezium with the brothers together, but I would Mikita Uvarov in the monastery uchnet durovat, ordered to keep bakery in shackled to Mikita Uvarov of the monastery did not go away. " In the reign of Feodor Alekseevich immediate predecessor, the epoch of Peter was issued a special law (1677), in which mental patients had no right to manage their property, along with the deaf, blind and dumb, as well as drunkards and "dumb." Legislation that time is "stupid" as "sickly", ie patients. The concept of mental illness as something independent of supernatural forces, already existed in Russia during the XVII century. People involved in healing in Russia in the pre-Petrine period had often met with alcoholic psychosis. This is, in particular, by the description of the villagers on the Dvina Komaritsy Athanasius, who "suffered a fierce disease, attacking him zly demon of immense drinking ... have more wit his belly and his desperate prebyvashu him to the weakness of the disease in the Temple not mixing. "