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Nikolai Pirogov
Pirogov
Celebrated Russian surgeon and educational reformer (1810-1881), held up by the drunken Ivan Ivanovich as the model of intellectual and professional greatness.
Reading notes
- Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") §1713 You ought to be a Pirogov!
Nikolai Pirogov (1810-1881), the celebrated Russian surgeon and educational reformer -- Ivan Ivanovich's drunken compliment holds him up as the model of intellectual and professional greatness.
- To N. A. Leikin, 1 April 1885. Moscow. §14 Pirogov's notes
The unpublished diary-memoirs of the eminent surgeon and educator Nikolai Pirogov (d. 1881), then running serially in Russkaya Starina; Chekhov, as a young physician, was organizing a petition among doctors to have them issued as a standalone book.