Russia, Moscow. View of the Foundling Home or Orphanage. Institution founded in 1763 as a project conceived by Catherine the Great and Ivan Betskoy. In 1781 the home moved into the first phase of what was to become a large building, on the north bank of the Moskva River. The buildings were enlarged in the 1820s and again in the 1930s. Engraving by Lemaitre, Cadolle and Lalaisse. History of Russia by Jean Marie Chopin (1796-1870). Panorama Universal, Spanish edition, 1839.