Krivosheeva Maria Anatoljevna

an applicant of the Civil Law Department of Russian State University of Tourism and Service, a legal intern of Interregional Bar of Moscow lawyers, Law Office No. 25, Russia, Moscow, 111123, 6b Novogireevskaya street. E-mail: vorobey-m@yandex.ru

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The article analyzes a pre-revolutionary Russian legislation on protection of rights of orphans and indigent children. The author describes the provisions of the legislation on guardianship, foster care and adoption in the context of optimization of orphans’ rights protection methods. He considers the processes which happened in the Russian Empire as a part of common all european process directed to the humanization of orphans’ adoption, care for the complex adherence to their rights and gradual refusal from the old model of adoption, when orphans were considered as a possibility to continue a family name, a domain or as a free labour power. At the end the article gives a conclusion on general tendencies to the formation of a complex institute of orphans and indigent children rights protection.