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Andrei Petrovich Dobroslavin
Dobroslavin
also: Доброславин, Доброславина
Andrei Petrovich Dobroslavin (1842-1889), pioneering Russian hygienist and epidemiologist, founder of Russia's first chair of hygiene at the Military Medical Academy; Chekhov reports his death from typhoid fever with grim irony -- one of the era's fiercest enemies of infectious disease killed by one.