On September 29, 1911, a statement was submitted to the Sarapul City Administration by N.V. and A.V. Smagin regarding a gift to the city. Anna Vasilievna donated a "two-story stone house, with a third floor under construction, on Jerusalem Street (next to another two-story stone house, which she donated in 1907 for the establishment of a hospice for the chronically and terminally ill)." The Smagins set conditions: "The house must have a shelter for poor and homeless children, primarily from Sarapul, exclusively for boys aged 6 years. Upon reaching 7.5-8 years, they should be sent to one of the lower educational institutions in the city, and then the best among them, no more than 5, to a real school or a technical school that may be opened, and 5 to a leather or other craft establishment."
On August 13, 1913, Nikolai Vasilievich appealed to His Grace Mephodiy, Bishop of Sarapul, with a request to establish a domestic church in the previously created hospice for elderly and infirm workers and their families, as well as in the boys' orphanage. He arranged for the domestic church at his own expense, which was consecrated on November 20, 1913, in honor of Saint Anna the Prophetess and was attached to the Protection Church. In 1917, the church was closed. The hospice building has survived, but there are no traces of the church left.
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