The history of epidemics in Russia. From plague to coronavirus. Vasiliev K.G., Segal A.E.

The first mor, which is mentioned in Old Russian chronicles, for three months of 1092 killed over 7 thousand lives of the inhabitants of Polotsk. In 1664 - 1660, the plague killed 700 thousand people. A hundred years later, only in Moscow 100 thousand people died from the plague. In the 19th century, Russia survived 8 epidemics of cholera and lost 2 million people. In 1918 - 1919, 3.4% of the inhabitants died from the Spanish influenza in Russia. At the same time, another 750 thousand people burned in a typhoid fever. For the first time in detail and reliably it is said about how deadly microbes, bacteria and viruses attacked the inhabitants of Russia and what consequences this led.