There is regarded the issue of charity work in Tsaritsyn at the beginning of the First World War. There are thoroughly considered the forms and types of charities. The basic materials for the study of these issues are periodicals in Tsaritsyn which is poorly studied now. Based on the thorough analysis of many articles and notes of Tsarytsyn newspapers issued in the years of the First World War there are represented the types, forms, scopes and results of charity work and marked the famous patrons who helped the wounded in the first years of the War and covered the work of charity organizations.