Love for people, a friendly attitude towards people in general, sacrificing your time, money, reputation for the sake of charity. Helping those in need, philanthropy. Widespread support and patronage of sciences, arts and education. These are the main features of philanthropy and patronage of the arts. The next book in the series tells about the most famous patrons of the arts and philanthropists - from antiquity to the present day. Among them were the Ptolemies, Maecenas, Akbar the Great, Rudolf II, Louis XIV, F.P. Gaaz, I.V. Tsvetaev, Bakhrushin, P.M. Tretyakov, Ludwig II of Bavaria, S.T. Morozov, Mother Maria, Mother Teresa and many others.