institution

Moscow Foundling Home

the Foundling Home

also: Московский воспитательный дом

A large state-run institution for abandoned infants in Moscow, founded under Catherine the Great, whose staff physicians were expected to perform courtly ceremony alongside medicine.

Reading notes

The Naive Wood-Sprite §7 Moscow Foundling Home
The Moscow Foundling Home (Московский воспитательный дом), a large state-run institution for abandoned infants, founded under Catherine the Great, which employed physicians for its wards -- and, satirically, expected of them courtly ceremony as much as medicine.
To N. A. Leikin, 12–13 February 1884. Moscow. §13 our Foundling Home
The Moscow Foundling Home, a large state charitable institution for abandoned infants; Chekhov alludes to it in a tale he has written and, in this postscript, flags a brewing administrative scandal there -- an inspection turning up trouble between staff and superiors -- as fodder for another Oskolki contributor.