Pirogov relics and the «N.I.Pirogov Museum» in the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

In December 2018, the «N.I.Pirogov Museum» was opened at the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The latter is, as it were, the successor to the first museum of N.I.Pirogov, created on the initiative of the Russian Surgical Society at the end of the XIX century in St. Petersburg, the Surgical Museum of the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy and the Museum of the «Instrumental Hut» of the St. Petersburg Instrument Plant. The «N.I.Pirogov Museum» is a recognition of the genius of domestic and foreign medicine, the great anatomist and surgeon, a pioneer in many fields of medicine, the founder of military field surgery and the medical support system of the troops, a major organizer of military sanitary affairs, an outstanding teacher and public figure.

Nikolai Pirogov, genius of domestic medicine, military surgeon, topographic anatomy, «ice anatomy», plaster cast