title: On the Medical Activities of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. On the 165th Anniversary of His Birth
abstract: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov gained worldwide fame as a writer, but he was also a doctor by education and dedicated a signifi cant part of his life to medicine. At the university, his studied under outstanding scientists — therapist Grigory Antonovich Zakharyin, surgeon Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky, hygienist Fyodor Fyodorovich Erisman. Chekhov began his medical practice as a second-year student at the Chikinskaya Zemstvo Hospital in the Moscow Region town of Voskresensk, where he secured a posit
journal: The Russian Archives of Internal Medicine