In Moscow, the only monument to a mother of many children was installed, created by sculptor Alexander Kostin in 2016. It is located on the territory of the former maternity hospital named after Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova, which is now occupied by the State Budgetary Institution "Socenergo".
Agrippina Alexandrovna Abrikosova, born Musatova (1832, 1901), was a Russian philanthropist and a mother of 22 children. Of these, 17 survived and received higher education. At the age of eighteen, she met Alexei Abrikosov, a peasant's son who, with only three years of education in a commercial school, became the largest confectioner in Russia and "Supplier to His Imperial Majesty." At 18, Agrippina gave birth to her first son Nikolai, and a year later, a daughter Anna. Subsequently, children appeared almost every year, and she had her last child at the age of 46.
Agrippina was a patron of the Morozov Children's Hospital, opened a kindergarten at her husband's factory, and in 1889 founded the first free clinic for women in Moscow, a maternity shelter, and a gynecological clinic with permanent beds. In her will, she specified that 100,000 rubles from her inheritance should be allocated for the opening of a maternity hospital.
Later, her son-in-law, the famous Moscow obstetrician Professor A.N. Rakhmanov, fulfilled her will and headed the maternity hospital from 1906 to 1925, significantly contributing to the development of obstetrics. Maternity Hospital No. 6 operated for over a hundred years but was closed for renovation. Now, the building houses the State Budgetary Institution "Socenergo."
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