Military doctor Konstantin Finne (1878–1956) and his memories of the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Military Medical Academy

The article introduces for the first time a new document on the history of the Military Medical Academy – the memoirs of the military doctor Konstantin Finne (1878–1956) about the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in 1898. The manuscript has not been published and transferred by M.N.Kozovenko to the fundamental library of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M.Kirov. K.N.Finne was the first physician on the staff of the Air Squadron, which became the world’s first heavy bombers formation. In 1903 he graduated from the Military Medical Academy and was left with it for improvement. In 1907 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, then served as a military doctor at the Riga military hospital. He is also the author of the first comprehensive book on the Ilya Muromets aircraft and the history of the Air squadron (1930). Member of the White movement, emigrated to Yugoslavia, after World War II to Austria. From 1949 he lived in the USA (New York), where he died.