The unique testimony about the organization of medical support of the russian army in the World War I

Abstract

The article presents the main milestones of organizational and medical activities of N.A. Velyaminov at the time of the World War I, which are reflected in the unique manuscript – «Essays on the military-sanitary service in the patriotic war of 1914–1917 and memories of the academician Velyaminov», which is stored in the Military Medical Museum (SaintPetersburg). It belongs to the pen of the outstanding Russian doctor, surgeon, academician of the Imperial Military-Medical Academy – Nikolay Aleksandrovich Velyaminov (1855–1920). The representative of aristocratic family, he talked with the leaders of senior military leadership and the government, moved in high society circles, knew all the imperial family. During the war, N.A. Velyaminov at first was the Inspector of the organization of surgical care in the army at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander, then in 1916 he was the chief of the sanitary department and the special plenipotentiary of the Russian Red Cross Society in the Guards, in 1917 he was the chief field sanitary inspector of the Russian Army. He had a high prestige among the makers of the domestic medicine. Author of manuscript reflected the state of the medical care in Russian army during the war, the work of the Main Military-Sanitary Administration, the activities of charitable organizations, and many other issues. The manuscript was begun in the end of the World War I. Currently it is planned scientific publication of this document. It would be a significant event for the Russian Historical Society, will make open up a number of unknown pages of organization of the medical-evacuation support in the Russian Army in 1914–1917, it possible to correctly assess the results of the medical service activity, much of which still remains unknown to historians.

Keywords

World War I / Russian Army / medical support / N.A. Velyaminov / manuscript / memories / documents

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