Florinsky, Vasily Markovich

Vasily Florinsky was born on February 16 ( 28 ), 1834 in a large family of a deacon of the village of Frolovskoye in the Yuryevsky district of the Vladimir province of Mark Yakovlevich Florinsky (1800-1872) and his wife Maria Andreevna (Ur. Fedorova, 1803-1883). Now with. Frolovskoye is part of the Krasnoselsky rural settlement of the Yuryev-Polsky district of the Vladimir region . Mark Yakovlevich and his wife had six children: Maria (born 1827, married Kokosov), Alexander (1830–1891), Ivan (1832–1892), Vasily (1834–1899), Semyon (1836–1880), Ivan (1837-1894).

Soon after the birth of Vasily Florinsky, the wooden church in the village of Frolovsky burned down, and the service ceased. Having lost their livelihoods, the family moved to the Trans-Ural village of Peski ( Shadrinsky district of the Perm province , now the center of the Peskovsky village council of the Dalmatovsky district of the Kurgan region ), where, under the patronage of his father-in-law, Archbishop Arkady (Fedorov in the world), Father Mark Florinsky was appointed priest. At the age of 9, Vasily Florinsky was taken to a five-year primary religious school at the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery , after which he was admitted to the Perm Theological Seminary ^[2] .

After graduating from the seminary in 1853, changing family traditions, V. M. Florinsky continued his education at the St. Petersburg Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy . As one of the most successful students, who is also fluent in foreign languages, in his third year he was sent abroad for two years. Immediately after the end of the Crimean War, V. M. Florinsky was lucky enough to have an internship at leading universities and medical institutions in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Austria. By the time he returned to Russia, he had already published about 20 scientific papers.

In 1858, V.M. Florinsky successfully passed the test for the rank of doctor and was identified as a super-qualified physician by the military medical department with a secondment for improvement to the second military hospital at the Medical and Surgical Academy.

Since 1860, V. M. Florinsky became a full member of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg. As an exception, in the same year, as a private assistant professor, he was appointed to lecture on female diseases at the Medical and Surgical Academy. Only in April of the following year he defended his thesis: “On perineal ruptures during childbirth” for the title of doctor of medicine and was finally approved as a privat-docent of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Academy, but soon with a “scientific purpose” he was sent abroad for two years .

Returning to St. Petersburg in 1863, V. M. Florinsky was elected an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical and Surgical Academy. The department was headed by Professor A. Ya. Krassovsky . In 1865 V. M. Florinsky was determined as the junior resident of the obstetric clinic of the department, where he was entrusted with the management of twelve children's beds, which have been in the clinic since the time of Khotovitsky ^[3] .

In 1868, V. M. Florinsky was elected an extraordinary professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and on July 15, 1869, the Charter of the Academy for the first time in Russia, pediatrics was separated from obstetrics and gynecology as a separate subject "Children's diseases with practical exercises in an academic clinic" . The leadership of the newly created department was entrusted to Professor V. M. Florinsky.

Being an obstetrician by vocation, Vasily Markovich was burdened by his duties as the head of the clinic and the department of childhood diseases, so in 1870 he turned to the leadership of the Academy, with a proposal to assign them to recently arrived after an internship in European universities privat docent N.I. Bystrov . The decision was half-hearted. Formally, the clinic and the department continued to be led by V. M. Florinsky until his dismissal from the Academy, but in fact, lectures on children's diseases and treatment of children in the clinic were entrusted to N. I. Bystrov.

In 1872 V.M. Florinsky was approved as a candidate for the academic court, and the next year, while continuing to serve at the Medical and Surgical Academy, he was appointed a permanent member of the scientific committee of the Ministry of Education . Work in the ministry was concentrated in the committee where he oversaw medicine, as well as in the commission for the revision of the university charter and in a number of commissions formed in connection with the upcoming creation of the Siberian University . In 1875, leaving his service at the Academy, Vasily Markovich completely concentrated on his work in the Ministry of Education, where he headed the Medical Council.

In 1877, V. M. Florinsky was appointed a member of a special commission for a comprehensive discussion of the issue of the locality “in which it would be more useful” to establish the Siberian University . In 1880, in the status of a member of the construction committee for the construction of the building of the Siberian University, he was sent to Tomsk. At the final stage of construction (1885-1888), Vasily Markovich was a trustee of the West Siberian educational district and carried out general management of the construction of the university.

At the same time, starting in 1878, V. M. Florinsky, in the rank of an ordinary professor, headed the Department of Obstetrics and Female Diseases of the Imperial Kazan University . For several years he had to live in two cities: during the academic semesters - in Kazan , and spend the summer months on construction in Tomsk . Nevertheless, Vasily Markovich found time to engage in science. His merits as a scientist were rated very highly. In 1879, V. M. Florinsky was elected a foreign member of the Boston Gynecological Society (USA), an honorary member of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg.

In 1898 V.M. Florinsky retired and decided to stay in Kazan, where his daughter's family settled at that time. At the end of 1898, he visited St. Petersburg. Here, on the morning of January 3 ( 15 ), 1899 , he died directly from a heart failure in a hotel.

The body of Vasily Markovich was delivered to Kazan and buried in the cemetery of the Kazan Transfiguration Monastery ^[4] . The grave has not been preserved.

Doctor, Ethnographer, Archaeologist

• In 1873, V. M. Florinsky traveled to the Orenburg province . During it, he studied the ethnography of the Bashkirs living there. In his works, the scientist described Bashkir homes, kitchens, costumes, households, nomads, etc. Vasily Markovich was a strong supporter of the Turkic theory of the origin of Bashkirs.
• In 1875, Vasily Markovich was elected a full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society .
• V. M. Florinsky contributed to the creation of a botanical garden near the walls of the university in Tomsk.
• Vasily Markovich's fascination with archeology was embodied in the archaeological collection he collected. In 1882, this collection served as the beginning of the Tomsk Archaeological Museum.

“May Russian medical science be affirmed over many centuries on the unshakable beginnings of natural science; may its gifts flow, warmed by the spirit of love and human love, the whole breadth of Russian life, the glory and happiness of our native country ...” From a welcoming speech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Russian Society doctors

• Wife: Maria Leonidovna (Ur. Fufaevskaya);
• Son: Sergey Vasilievich - died at the age of 4 years;
• Daughter: Olga Vasilievna Levashova - wife of a professor at Kazan University, rector of the Novorossiysk University, deputy of the IV State Duma Sergei Vasilievich Levashov (1856-1919) ^[2] .

At the end of 1892, a story was played out at the Tomsk Society of Naturalists and Doctors at the Siberian University, due to the difficulties of the initial period in the formation of medical education. Today, the essence of this story could not be restored, but then the student P. I. Kytmanov responded with a caricature of “Why is the kitchen smoking?” The caricature depicted the University building, from all the cracks, windows and doors of which smoke was pouring, and V.M. Florinsky, the trustee of the school district and the chairman of the Society of Naturalists and Doctors, sat on the top of the pipe, tightly closing its hole. The caricature, the appearance of which was caused by momentary problems, nevertheless had a certain resonance in Tomsk ^[5] .

• Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (1865);
• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1867) with the imperial crown (1870);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1878);
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1882);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1882);
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1888);
• Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd degree (1896);
• Silver medal in memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander the Third (1896);
• Order of the White Eagle (1899);
• Laureate of the Grand Prize "Emperor Peter the Great" for the best textbook of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Empire (1878).
• Honorary citizen of the city of Tomsk (1898) for his services to founding the Siberian University.

Vasily Markovich Florinsky - author of more than 200 scientific papers on medicine, ethnography, archeology:

• About perineal tears during childbirth / Soch., Written. for receive. step. Dr. med. Doctor Vasily Florinsky, Assoc. obstetrics at Imp. St. Petersburg medical surgeon. Acad. St. Petersburg, 1861
• Operational Obstetrics Course prof. G. Brown / Per. with him. students of St. Petersburg. medical surgeon. Acad. under the editorship of associate professor V. Florinsky with a sign. rev. and the addition of St. Petersburg: type. I. Treya, 1865.
• Improvement and degeneration of the human race / [Op.] Prof. F. [! V.] Florinsky St. Petersburg: [Zh. "The Case"], 1866 (type. Ryumin and K °)
• The course of obstetrics and female diseases: (Gynecology) / [Op.] V. Florinsky, E.-horde. prof. St. Petersburg medical surgeon. Acad. T. 1-
• Information on the state and needs of Russian medical faculties, presented at the Highest Approved Commission for the revision of the current university charter, by Commissioner V. Florinsky St. Petersburg: type. V.S. Balasheva, 1876
• Russian common herbalists and healers : Collection of medical manuscripts XVI. and xvii. centuries
• Home Medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. use, write. horde prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. typ., 1880
• Recollection of the activities of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov at the Medical and Surgical Academy: Speech of the horde. prof. obstetrics and wives. diseases V. M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. typ., 1881
• Diplomatic meeting of affairs between the Russian and Chinese states from 1619 to 1792: Comp. according to documents stored in Moscow. arch. Gos. collegium foreign affairs, in 1792-1803 by Nikolai Bantysh-Kamensky / Ed. in memory of the past 300th anniversary of Siberia V.F. Florinsky, with approx. Publisher Kazan, 1882
• To casuistry of ectopic pregnancy with uncontrollable vomiting: Cheat. in a meeting of Kaz. total Doctors Jan 25 1882 / [Op.] N. N. Sapozhnikova; (From the Gynecol. Clinic prof. V. M. Florinsky) Kazan: Univ. typ., [1883]
• Home Medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. use, write. horde prof. Kazan. University of V. M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A. A. Dubrovin, 1883
• Obstetrics Course: Lectures, Cheat. in Imp. Kazan. un-te / [Op.] Prof. V.M. Florinsky Kazan: type. Imp. University, 1883
• Home Medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. use, write. horde prof. Kazan. University of V. M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin, 1887
• The speech of the trustee of the West Siberian educational district V. M. Florinsky, delivered at the opening of the Imperial University of Tomsk on July 22, 1888 Tomsk, 1888
• A note on the origin of the word "Siberia" / [Op.] V. M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailov and Makushin, 1889
• Topographic Information on the Mounds of Western Siberia / [Op.] V. M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailov and Makushin, 1889
• A note on influenza / [Op.] V. M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. V.V. Mikhailov and P.I. Makushin, 1890
• Home medicine: a handbook for folk use, write. def. prof. Imp. Kazan. University of V. M. Florinsky St. Petersburg. : Suvorin, 1890
• The frontiers of human life: Speech, delivered. Sep 22 1891 in the annual col. Tom. Islands of Naturalists and Doctors / [Op.] Prev. Islands V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: tipolit. V.V. Mikhailov and P.I. Makushin, 1891
• Clinics of the Imperial Tomsk University: Explains. note, cheat. when opening a wedge. buildings in full. their size is Nov 1. 1892 / [V. Florinsky] Tomsk: Tipo-lit. P.I. Makushina, 1892
• Primitive Slavs from the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavic archeology. - Tomsk: Tipo-Lit. P.I. Makushina, 1894-1897.
  • Part One - 1894. - XXIV, 355 p.
  • Part two. - 1897.
• Home Medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. use, write. horde prof. Imp. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin, 1903
• Articles and speeches by Vasily Markovich Florinsky : Ed. by the death of author M.L. Florinsky, Kazan: Tipo-lit. Imp. University, 1903
• Home Medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. use, write. horde prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin, 1908

• Florinsky, Vasily Markovich // Tomsk from A to Z: A Brief Encyclopedia of the City. / Ed. Dr. East. Sciences N. M. Dmitrienko . - 1st ed. - Tomsk: NTL Publishing House, 2004 .-- S. 396-397. - 440 s. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89503-211-7 .
• Sechenova A. A. Vasily Markovich Florinsky - the first trustee of the West Siberian educational district // Bulletin of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University: journal. - Tomsk, 2009. - No. 12 . - S. 139-141 .
• Florinsky, Vasily Markovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Evgeni Veniaminovich Yastrebov Vasily Markovich Florinsky Publishing House of Tomsk University, 1994 - Total pages: 170
• Almanac of contemporary Russian statesmen St. Petersburg 1897 p. 601-602
• Obituary // Government Gazette. - SPb. , 1899. - January 6 ( No. 4 ). - S. 3 .
• V. M. Florinsky (obituary) // Siberian Trade Newspaper. No. 11. January 15, 1899. Tyumen.

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