Nikolai Pirogov

Nikolai Pirogov, a native Muscovite and a graduate of the medical faculty of Moscow University, became famous primarily as a professor at the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy, a field surgeon and a participant in the defense of Sevastopol. For contemporaries, he was an example of nobility and selflessness, and it was these qualities that he himself considered mandatory for a real doctor.

the cited biographical facts are backed by quotes from diaries, letters and documents of the protagonist, as well as from the extensive corps of letters and memories of people From his environment. And it is they who give liveliness and the volume of a textbook person.

a detailed and conscientious study of the biography of the great Russian doctor was conducted-a century later-professor of the Military Medical Academy A. S. Kiselev.