Russian nursing
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter is developed in the context of the Russian army, which was deeply permeated with corruption and graft. It was essentially an eighteenth-century army in the 1850s, fighting industrialized countries. The soldiers were basically all serfs; in the officer corps there were dramatic contrasts between ignorance and incompetence at one end and intelligence, energy, and cosmopolitan professionalism at the other. This was also true of the medical department and its nurses, the ‘feldshers.’ Th