AUTHOR: Natalia MOROSHAN Danubius, XXXVIII – Supliment, Galaţi, 2020, pp. 83-97. Abstract The article shows that, during the period comprised between the middle of the XIX-th century – the beginning of the XX-th, the state actively supported the charity initiative and encouraged active philanthropists in every way. The government offered to the Bessarabian aristocrats involved…