Activity of russian red cross (1867-1921): review of sources

The article is sanctified to the review of sources that touch the problem of origin and activity of one of the most considerable public eleemosynary organizations of the Russian empire - Russian society of Red Cross. The analysis of sources on history of Society comes true both within the framework of study of considerable array of unpublished documents and by bringing in of row of the published materials (legislative acts, office work documents, statistical reports, memoir literature of and other). An author marks that present sources give an opportunity deeper to expose history of origin and development of Society of Red Cross, find out a role and place last in the military medical mechanism of the Russian empire.