Theme of military medicine in publications of Community of St. Eugene (130 years of the founding)

Abstract

Medical subjects in publications of Community of St. Eugene (another name — Saint-Petersburg sponsorial about the sisters of Red Cross committee) are analyzed. Motive of the beginning of publishing and its continuation right up to 1918 was realization of «medical plans» of Community. A number of belles-letters and more than 6400 designation of postcards in edition of 30 millions copies were published in the total. The sum total of this production is reckoned in famous phenomenon of Russian culture of XX c. The article is illustrated by the medical subjects from different publications of Community, among others, by the masterpieces of such famous artists as Vereschagin V.V., Repin I.E., Dobuzhinsky M.V. etc. Cultural phenomenon of publishing of Community of St. Eugene allows to open new pages on the history of Russian military medicine in XIX — beginning XX c.