MOSCOW. 191 
Petersburg excites the interest and attention of Sun!*" 
all foreigners ; although it be but a branch of the v ' — ' s ' 
more magnificent establishment of the same 
nature in the east angle of the Khitciy Gorod at 
Moscow. Both the one and the other have been 
sufficiently described by preceding authors'. 
Of the latter, it will therefore only be necessary 
to add, that, in the space of twenty years, prior to 
the year 1780, it had received no less than thirty- 
seven thousand six hundred and seven infants. 
Of this number, one thousand and twenty had 
left the asylum ; and there remained six thou- 
sand and eighty at that time®. In 1 7 92 , the 
number of children in the house amounted to two 
thousand; and about three thousand belonging 
(]) Since the foundation of these two establishments, similar insti- 
tutions have taken place in other towns of Russia: such as Tula, 
Kaluga, Jaroslnf, Casan, &c. 
(2) Starch’s Tableau de Rus.sk, tom. i. p. 321. Upon the great mor- 
tality which this statement allows, the author makes the following 
judicious remarks : €< Si cette note, adoptee d apr&s un ecrivain tr£s- 
vf-ridique sur d’autres points, est exacte, la perte que cet etablissement 
a essuyde par la mortality des enfans, est sans doute tri!s-consid<5rable : 
raais elle le paroitrait beaucoup moins, si l'on examinait le nomhre de 
eeux qui sont morts au moment d'y etre recus, aussi bien que de ceux 
qui y ont porte le germe de leur destruction. Pour determiner l’dtat 
exact de la mortality de eette maison, 11 faudrait savoir le nombre 
d’enfans parfaitement sains qui y sont entres ; car ceux que Ton porte 
\ l’hftpital, aussitftt. aprfis qu’ils ont etc baptises, ne peuvent <?tre regardes 
que comma des victimes devouees it la mort : il y aurait done la plus 
grande injustice a attribuer leur perte it un etablissement rempli 
d’humanite, qui enricbitannuellcment l’etat d un nomhre toujours plus- 
considerable de ciloyens sains, actifs, et industrieux.” 
