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Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna Romanova -van Württemberg, lithography by L. Noel of the portrait of F. Vinnergalter, 1863, Image No. 2549, Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg. Reproduced with their permission.
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Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, one of the greatest Russian surgeons of the 19th Century, was convinced of the importance of deploying nurses to care for the casualties of war. With the support of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, sister-in-law of Tsar Nikolas I, Pirogov realised the idea during the Crimean war when Russia became the first country to send f...
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... The role of nurses in such extreme situations was invaluable. Seventeen Russian nurses died, and those who survived continued their nursing careers and founded what later became the Russian Red Cross in 1867 (Hendriks et al., 2019). ...
Social work and religion are closely linked by historical ties and roots. In virtually the entire known world, social support for the needy was inspired by religious and spiritual ideas and dogmas. This did not pass for the Russian state in different periods of its political structure, which has its own national specifics. The paper provides rationale for the continuity of community service as a manifestation of advanced Russian political and philosophical ideas of 19th − 20th centuries. The study showed a more than twofold increase in the number of volunteers in all community-based organizations over the analyzed period of 2012–2020.
... The authors want to emphasize that these two articles are an extract from previously published extensive articles related to Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. You can find these articles in the reference list under the name of the first author [12][13][14][15][16][17]. ...
This article is the second of two articles on Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. In the first article “Highlights of the professional activities of Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov before and after his professoriate in Saint Petersburg (1841–1860).” we discussed his early training and his professional development at the Dorpat University and abroad till his appointment in Saint Petersburg 1841. Also is discussed how during and after his professoriate in Saint Petersburg he developed management of mass war casualties. In this second article we highlight his professional career as an anatomist, surgeon and anaesthesiologist. The authors want to emphasize that these two articles are an extract from previously published extensive articles related to Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. You can find these articles in the reference list under the name of the first author [12–17].
... The Berlin Conference took place from 10-14 (22)(23)(24)(25)(26) April 1869. The president of the Russian Red Cross, General Adjutant Aleksander Karlovich Baumgarten, was appointed secretary for the main committee [61]. ...
This article is the first part of two articles on Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. In this article we will discuss how Pirogov developed in his early professional career his unique scientific attitude toward medical problems. He extended this scientific view already before his appointment as Professor of Applied Anatomy and Hospital Surgery
at the Medical-Surgical Academy and chief surgeon of the Second Military Landforce Hospital (with 1000 beds) in 1841. After his resignation as Professor in 1860 and during his retirement he used his views and skills towards the management of mass casualties during wars or others, which eventually developed into the International Red
Cross.
In the second article “Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov as an innovator in anatomy, surgery, and anaesthesiology.”
we will highlight his professional career as an anatomist, surgeon and anaesthesiologist. The authors of
these two parts want to emphasise that these two articles are an extract from previously published extensive articles
related to Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. You can find these articles in the reference list under the name of the
first author [20–25].
