Haaz, Fedor Petrovich

Born in Prussia in a family of Catholics. He studied German studies , philosophy and medicine at the Jensky and Göttingen universities . He began medical practice in Vienna.

In 1806 he came to Russia as a family doctor of the Repnin-Volkonsky family. In 1809 and 1810 he traveled around the Caucasus to study mineral springs (now the Caucasian Mineral Waters ). He investigated the sources in Kislovodsk , discovered the sources of Zheleznovodsk , was the first to report the sources in Essentuki (although he did not attach great importance to them) ^[2] . During the Patriotic War of 1812 he worked as a surgeon in the Russian army.

Since 1813, after a short trip to his homeland, he lived and worked in Moscow . In fact, he devoted his life to alleviating the fate of prisoners and exiles. He fought to improve the life of prisoners: he made sure that the elderly and the sick were freed from shackles; the abolition in Moscow of an iron rod, to which were riveted 12 exiles who were traveling to Siberia ; half-head shaving in women. On his initiative, a prison hospital and a school for children of prisoners were opened. Constantly took and supplied drugs to poor patients. He fought for the abolition of the right of landowners to exile serfs. All his savings went to charity.

For his charitable activities he was represented by the Moscow Governor D. S. Lansky to the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class ; Haaz really appreciated this insignia and invariably wore it to death on his well-worn, but always neat tailcoat.

He was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow; on his last journey he was escorted by a 20 thousandth crowd ^[3] .

• A bust of Dr. Haas by N. A. Andreev was installed in 1909 in Maly Kazhenny Lane in the courtyard of the former " Police Hospital " on the initiative of the head physician S. V. Puchkov ^[4] . On the monument is the motto of Dr. Haase, borrowed from the Apostle Paul: “Hurry to do good” (Rom. 16:19).
• In 1998, a monument was erected on the collected donations in the hometown of Bad Münstereifel ^[5] .
• In honor of the famous physician, the Federal State Medical and Prophylactic Institution “ Regional Hospital named after Dr. F. P. Haase ”, which reports to the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, is named .
• Streets in Moscow , Essentuki and Zheleznovodsk are named after Haaz.
• In honor of Dr. Haas, in 1914 the city shelter for street children was named (“Shelter named after Dr. F. P. Haas for young minors of the Worker’s House and the Worker’s House”), which was in Sokolniki before the revolution. One of the buildings of this shelter ( Oleniy Val Street , 24b) has survived to this day.
• In Perm there is a children's oncohematological center named after F.P. Haase.
• The German school in Moscow bears the name Haaza since 1989.
• The name of Fedor Petrovich is gymnasium number 58 of the city of Gomel ( Belarus ).
• On November 26, 1987, in Odessa ( Ukrainian SSR , USSR ), the Foundation for Social Assistance named after Dr. F.P. Gaase was established ( uk: The Social Support Fund for the name of Dr. F.P. Haase ).
• Monument in Moscow (1909).
• Monument in the village of Tishkovo, Pushkin district, Moscow region. This village belonged to Haas from 1812 to 1853.
• On June 19, 2017, a resolution was signed by the Mayor of Moscow on assigning the nameless passage in the territory of Troparyovo-Nikulino named after Fedor Haaz. The driveway became Dr. Haase Street .
• In honor of Dr. Haase, on June 9, 2018, the television program “The Heart Given to People. Fedor Haaz " ^[6]

Beatification

In 2011, the canonical process of reckoning Fyodor Haas as a blessed began in the archdiocese of Cologne . In December 2015, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary , an edict was announced by Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of the intention to open a diocesan study of the heroic virtues and sanctity of Fyodor Haaz. And on January 9, 2016, during the solemn Mass in the Cathedral in Moscow ^[7] , the diocesan stage of the process of beatification of the Servant of God Friedrich Joseph (Fyodor Petrovich) Haaz, called the "holy doctor of Moscow", was opened; this stage was successfully completed in May 2018, and now the case is in the Vatican Congregation for the canonization of saints.

In the novel “ Idiot ” by F. M. Dostoevsky, one of the characters tells the other about Haase (without naming him by name):

One old man lived in Moscow, one "general", that is, a real state councilor, with a German name; he had been wandering about prison and criminals all his life; each consignment to Siberia knew in advance that an "old general" would visit her on the Sparrow Hills. He did his work in the highest degree serious and pious; he appeared, walked through the ranks of exiles who surrounded him, stopped before everyone, asked everyone about his needs, almost never read the instructions to anyone, called them all “darlings”. He gave money, sent the necessary things - footcloths, envelopes, canvas, sometimes brought life-saving books and gave them each literate, with full conviction that they would read their way and that the literate would read to the illiterate. He rarely asked about a crime, did he listen if the criminal himself began to speak. All the criminals on his equal footing, there was no difference. He spoke to them as brothers, but they themselves began to consider him in the end for his father. If he noticed any exiled woman with a child in her arms, he came up, caressed the child, snapped his fingers so that he laughed. He did so for many years, until his death; it got to the point that he was known throughout Russia and throughout Siberia, that is, all criminals. One ex-Siberian one told me that he himself witnessed how the most inveterate criminals recalled the general, and meanwhile, when he visited parties, the general could rarely give out more than twenty kopecks to his brother.

• Ma visite aux eaux d'Alexandre en 1809 et 1810 . Ed. Vsevolozhskogo, 1811. (Report on trips to the Caucasus).
• Manuscript "Appel aux femmes" . Published after his death by Dr. A. I. Pole.
• F.P. Haaz. Testament // Russian archive. 1912. - No. 6.
• Haaz F. Alphabet of Christian goodwill. - Moscow, 1898
• Haaz F. Appeal to women. - Moscow, 1897

• Haaz, Fedor Petrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Haaz, Fedor Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• A.F. Coney . Fedor Petrovich Haaz. Biographical sketch . SPb. , 1896.
• A.F. Coney. Fedor Petrovich Haaz. According to new materials // Bulletin of Europe. 1903. - No. 12
• P. Lebedev. Fedor Petrovich Haaz // Russian Bulletin. 1868.
• Leo Kopelev. Saint Dr. Fedor Petrovich Haaz. - L .: PetroRIF, 1993.
• Blokhina N.N. Humanist physician F.P. Gaaz as a researcher and organizer of spa business in the Caucasian Mineral Waters // Issues of balneology, physiotherapy and physiotherapy. - 2012. - No. 1. - S. 38-42.
• Alexander Muchnik Hurry to do good // Ukrainian Truth from 12/13/2011
• B. Sh . Okudzhava . Haaza has no refusal

• Dr. Haas - Hurry to do good!
• Puchkov S.V. To the characterization of Dr. F.P. Haase (Neopr.) . sedmitza.ru. Date of treatment December 14, 2010. Archived on August 24, 2011.
• Photos of monuments in Moscow and Bad Münstereifel
• The Society of Friedrich Joseph Haaz (German) , (English) , (Russian)
• Bad Münstereifel. "Hurry to do good!"
• Maly Kazenny lane, d. 5. Haazovskiy house. Moscow, which is not.
• Marina Murzina "Haaza has no refusal." The famous metropolitan doctor healed everyone. Article from the newspaper: Argumenty i Fakty Weekly No. 19 05/07/2014
• Okudzhava Bulat. Haaza has no refusal