The Society for the Universal Assistance of Soldiers Wounded in War and Their Families was founded in 1881 and operated under the highest patronage of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor. The Society’s purpose was to provide financial support to wounded soldiers, to facilitate their full recovery and restoration of their ability to work, and to help them obtain the pensions, allowances, and awards due to them.
The Society maintained: an information bureau, a dormitory, a medical department, workshops, a board of trustees for providing monetary assistance, and a committee for organizing local branches in European and Asian Russia. The Society published the “Bulletin of the Society.”
The membership fee was at least 3 rubles. The Society’s central board was located in Saint Petersburg.