Prizrenie sirot - eto osushchestvlenie gosudarstvennoy i obshchestvennoy zaboty o detyakh, ostavshikhsya bez roditeley v Rossii 18 - nachala 20 veka. Sistema pizreniya sirot v Rossii izuchaemogo perioda predstavlena mnogoobraziem uchrezhdeniy i form popecheniya detey-sirot.V monografii issledovana problema prizreniya detey-sirot v Eniseyskoy gubernii kontsa XIX - nachala XX vv. Vydeleny istoricheskie i sotsial'nye usloviya sozdaniya sistemy obshchestvennogo prizreniya detey-sirot v regione. Okharakterizovany tselevye, soderzhatel'nye i organizatsionnye aspekty deyatel'nosti uchrezhdeniy po vospitaniyu detey-sirot v Eniseyskoy gubernii kontsa XIX - nachala XX vv. Prednaznacheno dlya nauchnykh rabotnikov, prepodavateley, aspirantov, studentov pedvuzov i universitetov, a takzhe vsekh tekh, kto neravnodushen k probleme vospitaniya detey-sirot.