V.M. Florinsky - an outstanding Russian scientist and organizer of science

Vasily Markovich Florinsky was born in February 1834 in the village. Frolovsky, Yuryevsky district, Vladimir province, where his father Mark Yakovlevich was a deacon (4, 161). In 1837 M.Ya. Florinsky was accepted into the Perm diocese and ordained a priest with. Pokrovsky Shadrinsk district (where he died in 1872).

In 1842 V.M. Florinsky decided to study at the Dalmatov Theological School, after completing the course in 1848 he entered the Perm Theological Seminary. A year before the end of the course in it, Vasily Markovich left in 1853 for St. Petersburg to enter the Theological Academy, where he passed the exam, but, as having arrived at his own expense, and not sent by the seminary authorities, he was not accepted for government maintenance. Being kept in the capital at the expense of his father, due to his poverty, it was not possible. Therefore, he turned, not wanting to return to Perm, to the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy and, having passed the exam, was admitted to state support, where he completed the course in 1858. In the 1860s, having defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he worked in well-known clinics in Germany and as an adjunct professor at his native Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1873, he was appointed a member of the Academic Moscow Committee of Public Education with the retention of his post as a professor, and in 1875 he was transferred to the Ministry of Education, where until 1878 he served in various commissions on university issues (6, 139). In 1878 Florinsky was appointed an ordinary professor at Kazan University, where he served until 1885.

When the question of opening a university in Siberia was raised at the Ministry of Public Education, Vasily Markovich took an active part in the development of this issue (1, 169). Why he was repeatedly summoned from Kazan to St. Petersburg. Since 1880, Florinsky was the main figure in the construction committee of Tomsk University. He was assigned to supervise the buildings of the future university, which were to be best adapted for educational and scientific studies. To this end, V.M. Florinsky used to come to Tomsk every summer from Kazan. With the establishment of a new West Siberian educational district in 1885 with a control center in Tomsk, V.M. Florinsky was appointed to the post of the first trustee of the educational district (2, 70).

During the organization of the university in Tomsk, V.M. Florinsky formed a commission for the creation of the Siberian Museum, which was supposed to be transferred to this higher educational institution. The collection of exhibits for the museum was headed by V.M. Florinsky. The founding date of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography at Tomsk University was December 6, 1882, the day of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia to Russia (7). By this date, entrepreneur M.K. Sidorov donated to the museum the first large archaeological collection of "Tobolsk antiquities" by the artist S.K. Znamensky. It was from the moment of receipt of this collection by V.M. Florinsky began counting the history of the museum. For several years, a first-class archaeological collection has been assembled at the university. By the opening of the university in 1888, the Tomsk Museum already had 2,660 archaeological items, and 6 years later, in 1894, its funds contained 4,800 items from the territory of Western Siberia, the Minusinsk Basin, Gorny Altai and Central Asia.

When organizing the Florinsky Museum, the issues of systematizing archaeological finds, highlighting signs of characteristics of the level of historical, cultural, and economic development of peoples began to occupy. In 1888 V.M. Florinsky published the catalog "Archaeological Museum of Tomsk University". At the same time, Florinsky set two goals: to bring the collected objects into a system and to acquaint as many people as possible with their archaeological significance (cited in: 3, 65). In the introduction to the catalog, he outlined his concepts, denying the Mongolian, Tatar and Finnish origin of the Siberian burial mounds.

Interest in burial mounds arose from V.M. Florinsky long before that. Back in the 1860s. he got acquainted with the mounds of southern Russia. In 1874, he traveled around the archaeological sites of the Orenburg, Ufa, Perm provinces, and in 1881 examined the monuments of the ancient Bulgarians in the Kazan province (since 1878 being a member of the Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University), and during one of annual trips from Kazan to Tomsk, he examined the mounds along the river. Tobol. Siberian burial mounds made an indelible impression on him. It was then that Florinsky asked himself questions: “... do these monuments have a direct relationship to the ancient fate of the Slavic people? And what if their geographical coincidence with the current Russian territory is not a mere accident? Wouldn't it be sacrilege on our part to renounce these great-grandfather's graves, trample on their sacred memory with such disdain, yielding them to the Finns and Tatars with a light heart? (5, 4).

V.M. Florinsky introduced such concepts as "kurgan culture", understanding the latter very broadly: from the burial mounds of the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages; and "kurgan tribes", thinking that all the kurgans of Southern Siberia were left by one ancient people, attributing them to the ancestors of the ancient Slavs. “The fascination with Finnish theories, in the absence of a national consciousness, that a Slavic tribe may also have the right to prehistoric antiquity, that before the beginning of their state life they had to exist in space and time and leave material traces of their existence, leads to a decrease in the role of the Slavs” ( Quoted from: 3, 79).
Such a territory of the original habitat of the ancient Slavs, he considered ancient Siberia. V.M. Florinsky considered the entire archaeological antiquity as a kurgan culture and tried to give a historical and economic description of the tribes of the kurgan culture. According to his conclusions, the people had fortified cities and a sedentary life, developed mining, as evidenced by traces of ancient workings (related to the Bronze or Copper Age before Christ), furriery, pottery, agriculture, which existed in the Bronze Age of Siberia (1 ), animal husbandry. The world of spiritual needs was expressed in the system of needs, in religious objects. Finally, writing served as the crowning achievement of the cultural development of the peoples of the Kurgan era.

The scientific and political views of the scientist were outlined by him in the capital study "Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life." The book was directed against the concept of Finnish researchers who were looking for a Finno-Ugric ancestral home in Southern Siberia. This major publication on archeology contains extensive archaeological material collected both by the author himself and by other researchers. But all this was done with one goal - to prove that the archaeological past of Siberia belonged to the ancestors of the ancient Slavs, and a certain methodology clearly emerges in the presentation. “Thus,” Florinsky wrote, “the national question involuntarily suggests itself on the pages of archaeological works. Every archaeological fact is not significant in itself, but only in relation to the ancient destinies of this or that people” (5, 17).

The scientist considered the problem of the origin of the Slavs very broadly: the beginning of the Aryan and Semitic cultures, then the ways of the migration of the Aryans from Central Asia, the significance of Sanskrit in the history of peoples and the relationship of the Slavic languages with it. Further V.M. Florinsky pointed to the relationship of Asian and European Scythians on the basis of archaeological and toponymic data. All this was done by him to compare the Scythian culture with the Slavic.

Of particular interest is his concept of the change of ethnic groups in Siberia. V.M. Florinsky believed that the active life of the ancient Siberian population in mines, settlements and on the black earth Siberian plains (covered with burial mounds), which began, perhaps, from a very distant time, lasted no further than the 3rd - 4th centuries. Christian chronology. After this era, coinciding with the Great Migration of Peoples, we have historical evidence that Southern Siberia began to be settled by Tatar and Mongol tribes, which in turn gradually spread to the west. As the Huns moved to the Kama and Volga, and then to the Azov and Black Seas, the southern and Siberian steppes gradually lost their former settled artisan population, which was replaced by nomadic people. From what time and in what sequence Siberia was replaced by the Tatars is not exactly known.

Thus, everything that chronologically preceded the Great Migration of Peoples, V.M. Florinsky attributed to the prehistoric ancestors of the Slavs. In the second volume of his work, he presented the pattern of the change of peoples in this way: “Across the steppes, the people's wave overflowed from east to west, along the tundra - in the opposite direction. This circulation balanced the level of the people's sea: the Aryan steppe stream was likened to the life-giving Gulf Stream, while the northern current along the tundra carried away the excess of constrained Finns in the opposite direction - to the east. Human life is like the same sea, eternally alive and moving, not tolerating disturbance of physical balance” (quoted from: 3, 109).

The resettlement of Russians to Siberia, which began in the 17th century, V.M. Florinsky considered a return to the territories lost by the people: “I feel that the Russian people’s wave is not in vain striving to the south and east. Not only material benefits and political considerations draw us here, but the instinct of the people, unconsciously preserved in the collective memory of the masses, like the instinct of migratory birds" (5, 6).

In the 1890s V.M. Florinsky was a famous scientist with broad scientific interests, who was friends with D.I. Mendeleev. In 1892 Florinsky was promoted to Privy Councillor. In 1898 Vasily Markovich retired and returned to Kazan. During his service, he was awarded 10 orders. In 1898, the Tomsk City Duma awarded Florinsky the title of honorary citizen of Tomsk for his services in opening a local university. He died in St. Petersburg on January 3, 1899. V.M. Florinsky was buried in Kazan at the cemetery of the Transfiguration Monastery in the Kazan Kremlin.

For belonging to the high nobility, close to the ruling elite, his monarchical convictions, archaeological research by V.M. Florinsky were practically not used in the printed works of Soviet archaeologists. And today the works of V.M. Florinsky find a place rather in the works of alternative researchers in the history of the Slavs.

1. The beginning of the Bronze Age V.M. Florinsky dated II - I millennium BC. He also believed that the culture of the Iron Age was successive from the culture of the Bronze Age that preceded it.

Alexander Viktorovich Bespokoyny,
Shadrinsky Museum of Local Lore V.P. Biryukov.

P.S. From the collection "Priisetie in space and time", issued following the results of the VI ethnological and local history conference dedicated to the memory of M.G. Kazantseva (October 3, 2014).

Sources and literature:
1. A. [Arseniev K.K.?] Florinsky // Encyclopedic Dictionary. T. XXXVI. Finland - Franconia / Ed. F. Brockhaus, I.A. Efron. - St. Petersburg: Printing house Akts. Tot. Brockhaus-Efron, 1902. - S. 169.
2. Dmitriev A.A. Materials for biographies of memorable figures from Perm natives // Proceedings of the Perm Provincial Scientific Archival Commission. Issue. V. - Perm: Typo-Lithography of the Provincial Board, 1902. - S. 28-75.
3. Koveshnikova E.A. History of archeology of Siberia and the Far East in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Monograph. – Krasnoyarsk: Publishing house Krasnoyar. un-ta, 1992. - 126 p.
4. Kokosov I., priest. Vasily Markovich Florinsky // Yekaterinburg Diocesan Gazette. - 1899. - No. 6. - Unofficial department. - S. 161-163.
5. Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavic archeology. Part 1. General introductory part / V.M. Florinsky. - Tomsk: Type-Lithography P.I. Makushina, 1894. – XXIV, 355 p.

The name of Vasily Markovich Florinsky (1834-1899) in the history of Russian science and education is associated, first of all, with the foundation of Tomsk (at that time Siberian) University. Scientific interests of V.M. Florinsky covered obstetrics and gynecology, ethnology and archeology. He was the author of about 300 scientific papers.

We list the main scientific works of Vasily Markovich Florinsky. In 1869 and in 1870 he published two issues of the first volume of the textbook "Course of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases" (gynecology) - "the most fundamental publication at that time in this branch of medicine." In 1866, a book by V.M. Florinsky "Improvement and degeneration of the human race", in which the author, for the first time in the history of Russian science, expressed some considerations regarding heredity related to genetics and eugenics - those sections of scientific knowledge that at that time were not yet perceived as independent sciences.

V.M. Florinsky was also keenly interested in folk medicine. He was the author of a popular medical book, Home Medicine: A Handbook for Public Use (1880), which went through nine editions. Its writing was preceded by the publication of a book on the history of folk medicine - "Russian Common Herbalists and Medical Books: Collection of Medical Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries" (1879-1880).

Scientific interests of V.M. Florinsky were distinguished by their encyclopedic breadth. In the second half of the 1890s. he published a fundamental work on theoretical archeology - "Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavic archeology".

Since 1876, the life and work of V.M. Florinsky was closely associated with the first university in Siberia, which was supposed to open. Vasily Markovich took an active part in the organization of this university, being in 1877 included in the "Commission established by the Highest command to study the issue of choosing a city for the Siberian University." Regarding the organization of the university, V.M. Florinsky corresponded with many prominent Russian scientists and statesmen of that time, including A.N. Beketov and V.V. Dokuchaev, I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay, A.Ya. Danilevsky, D.I. Mendeleev, N.V. Sklifosovsky, I.D. Delyanov, K.P. Pobedonostsev, as well as representatives of the royal family.

V.M. Florinsky from 1875 to 1885. for the Siberian University, “almost 70 thousand volumes of books and journals were donated and purchased”, and in 1885 Vasily Markovich donated his library of literature on medicine to the university. V.M. Florinsky founded the university botanical garden, did a lot to create university museums, the largest of which was the archaeological one. “Simultaneously with the university-wide archaeological museum, others were created: zoological, botanical, mineralogical and geological, but they were considered armchair museums,” points out E.V. Yastrebov. All these initiatives of the organizer of Tomsk University still exist.

Vasily Markovich Florinsky was a full (in some cases honorary) member of Russian and foreign scientific societies, in particular: the Society of Russian Doctors (St. Petersburg; from 1859 - full; from 1879 - honorary member), the Imperial Russian Geographical Society ( St. Petersburg, 1875), Society of Physicians at Kazan University (1878), Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University (1878), Boston Gynecological Society (Boston, USA), Tomsk Society of Naturalists and Physicians ( 1889), the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers (Ekaterinburg, 1890), the Society of Kyiv Doctors (honorary member since 1891), the Society of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography Lovers (Moscow; since 1892 - an indispensable member), the Moscow Society of Naturalists.

Despite the extreme employment in the service, Vasily Markovich, a native of the clergy, did not break ties with his numerous relatives. Here is an excerpt from a letter from V.M. Florinsky - about. Ioanna Kokosova: “Those who completed the course at the Theological Seminaries with a student's degree can enter Tomsk University, but there were cases that they entered there due to exceptions and completed the course in the second category. This year my son Mikhail Ivanov Kokosov is about to finish his course at the Perm Theological Seminary; in the 6th grade of the Seminary, he passed first in the second category, but he cannot hope to receive the degree of Student of the Seminary, since while studying in the first classes of the Seminary, he had a score of 3 in general education subjects. Meanwhile, he has an irresistible desire to enter to continue his studies specifically to the Faculty of Medicine, which is what I wish with all my heart. It should be noted that among the descendants of Fr. Ioanna Kokosova - public figures, doctors, university professors (both naturalists and humanists), scientists, engineers. Suffice it to mention the famous Russian pulmonologist A.N. Kokosov, who, becoming interested in the history of his family, published the book "History of one kind (in health care)" (St. Petersburg, 2009).

One more fact should be added to the above. By the decision of the Academic Council of Tomsk State University dated March 31, 2004, the Regulations on the V.M. Florinsky for graduate students of the humanities faculties of Tomsk State University (graduate students of natural faculties can apply for a scholarship named after D.I. Mendeleev, who also stood at the origins of Tomsk University).

O.S. Kryukov
(Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov)

Nekrylov S.A., Fominykh S.B., Delich I.B., Ivanov S.B. V.M. Florinsky - the organizer of the Tomsk University // D.I. Mendeleev and V.M. Florinsky at the origins of Tomsk University. Tomsk, 2009, p. 76.

See: Yastrebov E.V. One hundred unknown letters of Russian scientists and statesmen to Vasily Markovich Florinsky. Tomsk: Publishing House of Tomsk University, 1996. 221 p.

Filimonov M.R. Book treasury of Siberia: To the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Scientific Library of Tomsk University. Tomsk: Publishing House of Tomsk University, 1988. P. 19.

Yastrebov E.V. Vasily Markovich Florinsky. Tomsk: Publishing House of Tomsk University, 1994. S. 75.

The original letter is stored in the State United Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan.––

Russian doctor and writer, archaeologist, extraordinary professor in the department of obstetrics and one of the founders of the first Russian department of childhood diseases at the Medical and Surgical Academy of St. initiators of the opening of the Siberian University in Tomsk, trustee of the West Siberian educational district, full member of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors (1859), Russian Geographical Society (1875), Society of Doctors at Kazan University (1878), Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University (1878) , honorary member of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors (1879), the Boston Gynecological Society (USA, 1879), the Society of Naturalists and Doctors at Tomsk University (1889), the Society of Kyiv Doctors (1891), a member of the society of lovers of natural science, anthropology and ethnography (Moscow, 1892 ), Privy Councilor (1892), by languid nobleman in the first generation, Honorary Citizen of Tomsk.
Born in a large family of Mark Yakovlevich Florinsky (1800-1872), a deacon in the village of Frolovskoye, Yuryevsky district, Vladimir province, and his wife, Maria Andreevna (born Fedorova). Shortly after the birth of Vasily Florinsky, the wooden church in the village of Frolovsky burned down, and the service ceased. Having lost their livelihood, the family moved to the Trans-Ural village of Sands (Shadrinsk district of the Perm province), where, under the patronage of his father-in-law, Archbishop Arkady (in the world - Fedorov), Father Mark Florinsky was appointed a priest. At the age of 9, Vasily Florinsky was taken to a five-year elementary theological school at the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery, after which he was admitted to the Perm Theological Seminary.
After graduating from the seminary in 1853, having changed family traditions, V. M. Florinsky continued his education at the St. Petersburg Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. As one of the most successful students, besides being fluent in foreign languages, in the third year he was sent abroad for two years. Immediately after the end of the Crimean War, V. M. Florinsky was lucky 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 tests for the title of a doctor and was appointed a supernumerary physician in the military medical department with a secondment for improvement to the second military land 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 Privatdozent, he was appointed to lecture on women's diseases at the Medico-Surgical Academy. Only in April of the following year, he defended his dissertation: “On perineal ruptures during childbirth” for the title of Doctor of Medicine and was finally approved as a Privatdozent of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Academy, but soon he was sent abroad for a “scientific purpose” for two years. .
Returning to St. Petersburg, in 1863, V. M. Florinsky was elected an adjunct professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Medico-Surgical Academy. Professor A. Ya. Krassovsky headed the department. In 1865, V. M. Florinsky was appointed as a junior intern of the obstetric clinic of the department, where he was entrusted with the management of twelve children's beds, which had been part of the clinic since the time of Khotovitsky.
In 1868, V. M. Florinsky was elected an extraordinary professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and on July 15 of the next, 1869, by 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 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 entrust them to N. I. Bystrov, who had recently arrived after an internship at European universities. The decision was half-hearted. Formally, V. M. Florinsky continued to lead the clinic and the department until his dismissal from the Academy, but in fact N. I. Bystrov was entrusted with lecturing on childhood diseases and treating children in the clinic.
In 1872, V. M. Florinsky was approved as a candidate member of the academic court, and the following year, while continuing his service at the Medico-Surgical Academy, he was appointed a permanent member of the academic committee of the Ministry of Public 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 forthcoming creation of the Siberian University. In 1875, leaving the service at the Academy, Vasily Markovich fully focused on work in the Ministry of Public 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 area “in which it would be more useful” to found 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 from 1878, V. M. Florinsky, as an ordinary professor, headed the Department of Obstetrics and Women's 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 highly appreciated. 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, 1899, he died of heart failure right in the hotel.
In 1873, V. M. Florinsky traveled around the Orenburg region. During it, he studied the ethnography of the Bashkirs living there. In his works, the scientist described Bashkir dwellings, cuisine, costumes, farming, nomad camps, etc. Vasily Markovich was a firm supporter of the Turkic theory of the origin of the 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 passion for archeology was embodied in the archaeological collection he collected. In 1882, this collection served as the beginning of the Tomsk Archaeological Museum.

FLORINSKY Vasily Markovich (February 16, 1834, Vladimir province - January 3, 1899, St. Petersburg) - Russian writer, archaeologist, doctor. Educated at the Perm Theological Seminary and St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy. Trustee of the Western Siberian educational district, adjunct professor in the department of obstetrics, tenured professor at Kazan University in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, a prominent specialist in traditional medicine, one of the initiators of the opening of the Siberian University in Tomsk, full member of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors (1859), Russian Geographical Society (1875), Society of Doctors at Kazan University (1878), Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University (1878), Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors (1879), Boston Gynecological Society (USA, 1879), Society of Naturalists and Physicians at Tomsk University (1889), the society of Kyiv doctors (1891), a member of the society of lovers of natural science, anthropology and ethnography (Moscow, 1892), privy councilor (1892), honorary citizen of Tomsk. From the clergy. Born in the village of Frolovskoye, Yuryevsky district, Vladimir province, in the family of a priest. Upon completion of the course of sciences at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy with a doctor's degree, he was appointed in 1858 as a supernumerary physician in the military medical department with secondment to the second military land hospital for improvement. In 1860 he was elected a full member of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg. In the same year, he was appointed to lecture on women's diseases at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy as Privatdozent. The following year, he received a doctorate in medicine and was sent abroad for academic purposes for two years. In 1863 he was appointed adjutant professor of the Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1865, he was appointed, in excess of the post of adjutant, as a junior intern of the 2nd military land hospital. In 1868 he was appointed extra-ordinary professor of the academy. In 1872 he was approved as a candidate member of the academic court. The following year, he was appointed a member of the Academic Committee of the Moscow Public Education, with the retention of his post. In 1875, he was transferred to serve in the Ministry of Public Education and was appointed from this ministry as an indispensable member of the Medical Council.

In the same year he was elected a full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. In 1877, he was appointed a member of a special commission for a comprehensive discussion of the issue of the area in which it would be more useful to establish the Siberian University. In 1878 he was appointed ordinary professor at Kazan University in the department of obstetrics and women's diseases. In 1879 he was elected a full member of the Boston Gynecological Society and an honorary member of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg. In 1880 he was appointed a member of the construction committee for the erection of the building of the Siberian University based in Tomsk, leaving him as a professor, sent to Tomsk to take part in this committee. In the period from 1885 to 1898, Florinsky served as a trustee of the West Siberian educational district. Thanks to his efforts, a library was assembled, a botanical garden was founded, and an archaeological collection was formed. In 1892 he was promoted to Privy Councillor. In 1898, the Tomsk City Duma awarded Florinsky the title of honorary citizen of the city of Tomsk for merits in opening the university. He died in St. Petersburg on January 3, 1899. Proceedings

Florinsky V. Bashkiria and the Bashkirs. Travel notes.//Bulletin of Europe. T.VI. SPb., 1874.

Russian folk herbalists and medical books: Collection of medical manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. type., 1880

Recollection of the activities of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov at the Medico-Surgical Academy: Speech of the Order. prof. obstetrics and women diseases V.M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. type., 1881

Diplomatic meeting of affairs between the Russian and Chinese states from 1619 to 1792: comp. according to documents stored in Moscow. arch. State. colleges of foreign cases, in 1792-1803 by Nikolai Bantysh-Kamensky / Ed. in memory of the past 300th anniversary of Siberia V.F. Florinsky, from approx. publisher Kazan, 1882

Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.A. Dubrovin, 1883
Course of obstetrics: Lectures, chit. in Imp. Kazan. un-te / [Coll.] Prof. V.M. Florinsky Kazan: type. Imp. university, 1883

Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1887
Speech of the trustee of the West Siberian educational district V.M. Florinsky, delivered at the opening of the Imperial Tomsk University on July 22, 1888 Tomsk, 1888

Note on the origin of the word “Siberia” / [Coll.] V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailova and Makushina, 1889

Topographic information about the burial mounds of Western Siberia / [Coll.] V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailova and Makushina, 1889

The boundaries of human life: Speech, delivered. 22 Sept. 1891 in the annual meeting. Volume. islands of naturalists and doctors / [Coll.] Prev. Islands V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. V.V. Mikhailov and P.I. Makushina, 1891

Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 Tomsk: Tipo-lit. P.I. Makushina, 1894-1897
Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 1896

Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 1898

Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Imp. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1903
Articles and speeches by Vasily Markovich Florinsky: Ed. after the death of the author. M.L. Florinskoy Kazan: Tipo-lit. Imp. university, 1903

Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1908.

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Vasily Markovich Florinsky (February 16 ( 18340216 ) , Vladimir province - January 3, St. Petersburg) - Russian doctor and writer, archaeologist, trustee of the West Siberian educational district, adjunct professor in the department of obstetrics, tenured professor at Kazan University in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, a prominent specialist in the field of traditional medicine, one of initiators of the opening of the Siberian University in Tomsk, full member of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors (1859), Russian Geographical Society (1875), Society of Doctors at Kazan University (1878), Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography at Kazan University (1878), honorary member of the St. Petersburg Society Russian doctors (1879), the Boston Gynecological Society (USA, 1879), the society of natural scientists and doctors at Tomsk University (1889), the society of Kyiv doctors (1891), a member of the society of lovers of natural science, anthropology and ethnography (Moscow, 1892), privy councilor ( 1892), honorary citizen of Tomsk.

Biography

Professor V. M. Florinsky

From the clergy. Born in the village of Frolovskoye, Yuryevsky district, Vladimir province, in the family of a priest. Upon completion of the course of sciences at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy with a doctor's degree, he was appointed in 1858 as a supernumerary physician in the military medical department, with a secondment to the second military land hospital for improvement.

In 1860 he was elected a full member of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg. In the same year, he was appointed to lecture on women's diseases at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy as Privatdozent. The following year, he received a doctorate in medicine and was sent abroad for academic purposes for two years.

In 1863 he was appointed adjutant professor of the Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1865, he was appointed in addition to the position of adjutant, junior intern of the 2nd military land hospital. In 1868 he was appointed extra-ordinary professor of the academy. In 1872 he was approved as a candidate member of the academic court. The following year, he was appointed a member of the Academic Committee of the Moscow Public Education, with the retention of his post. In 1875, he was transferred to serve in the Ministry of Public Education and was appointed from this ministry as an indispensable member of the Medical Council.

In 1880 he was appointed a member of the construction committee for the erection of the building of the Siberian University based in Tomsk, leaving him as a professor, sent to Tomsk to take part in this committee. In the period from 1885 to 1898, Florinsky served as a trustee of the West Siberian educational district. Thanks to his efforts, a library was assembled, a botanical garden was founded, and an archaeological collection was formed. In 1892 he was promoted to Privy Councillor. In 1898, the Tomsk City Duma awarded Florinsky the title of honorary citizen of the city of Tomsk for merits in opening the university. On January 3, 1899, V. M. Florinsky died in St. Petersburg.

Proceedings

On ruptures of the perineum during childbirth / Op., Written. for receiving step. Dr. med. physician Vasily Florinsky, Assoc. obstetrics at imp. St. Petersburg. medical surgeon acad. St. Petersburg, 1861
Course of operative obstetrics prof. G. Brown / Per. with him. students of St. Petersburg. medical surgeon acad. ed. adjunct prof. V. Florinsky with the meaning. rev. and additions St. Petersburg: type. I. Trey, 1865.
Improvement and degeneration of the human race / [Coll.] Prof. F. [!V.] Florinsky St. Petersburg: [journal. "Delo"], 1866 (typ. Ryumin and Co.)
Course of obstetrics and women's diseases: (Gynecology) / [Coll.] V. Florinsky, e.-ord. prof. St. Petersburg. medical-surgical acad. T. 1-
Information about the state and needs of Russian medical faculties, submitted to the Highly Approved Commission for the revision of the current university charter, a member of the Commission V. Florinsky St. Petersburg: type. V.S. Balasheva, 1876
Russian Common Herbalists and Medical Books: Collection of Medical Manuscripts XVI. and XVII. century
Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. type., 1880
Recollection of the activities of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov at the Medico-Surgical Academy: Speech of the Order. prof. obstetrics and women diseases V.M. Florinsky Kazan: Univ. type., 1881
Diplomatic meeting of affairs between the Russian and Chinese states from 1619 to 1792: comp. according to documents stored in Moscow. arch. State. colleges of foreign cases, in 1792-1803 by Nikolai Bantysh-Kamensky / Ed. in memory of the past 300th anniversary of Siberia V.F. Florinsky, from approx. publisher Kazan, 1882
To the casuistry of ectopic pregnancy with uncontrollable vomiting: Chit. at the meeting of Kaz. total doctors 25 Jan. 1882 / [Coll.] N.N. Sapozhnikov; (From the Gynecological Clinic of Prof. V.M. Florinsky) Kazan: Univ. type.,
Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.A. Dubrovin, 1883
Course of obstetrics: Lectures, chit. in Imp. Kazan. un-te / [Coll.] Prof. V.M. Florinsky Kazan: type. Imp. university, 1883
Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1887
Speech of the trustee of the West Siberian educational district V.M. Florinsky, delivered at the opening of the Imperial Tomsk University on July 22, 1888 Tomsk, 1888
Note on the origin of the word "Siberia" / [Coll.] V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailova and Makushina, 1889
Topographic information about the burial mounds of Western Siberia / [Coll.] V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. Mikhailova and Makushina, 1889
A note on influenza / [Coll.] V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. V.V. Mikhailov and P.I. Makushina, 1890
Home medicine: a medical book for folk use, written. def. prof. Imp. Kazan. Univ. V. M. Florinsky St. Petersburg. : Suvorin, 1890
The boundaries of human life: Speech, delivered. 22 Sept. 1891 in the annual meeting. Volume. islands of naturalists and doctors / [Coll.] Prev. Islands V.M. Florinsky Tomsk: Tipo-lit. V.V. Mikhailov and P.I. Makushina, 1891
Clinics of the Imperial Tomsk University: Explain. note, read when opening wedge. buildings in full their size 1 Nov. 1892 / [V. Florinsky] Tomsk: Tipo-lit. P.I. Makushina, 1892
Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 Tomsk: Tipo-lit. P.I. Makushina, 1894-1897
Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 1896
Primitive Slavs according to the monuments of their prehistoric life: Experience of Slavs. archeology. Ch. 1-2 1898
Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Imp. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1903
Articles and speeches by Vasily Markovich Florinsky: Ed. after the death of the author. M.L. Florinskoy Kazan: Tipo-lit. Imp. university, 1903
Home medicine: Therapeutic for Nar. usage, writing ord. prof. Kazan. University V.M. Florinsky St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1908

Sources

Evgeny Veniaminovich Yastrebov Vasily Markovich Florinskiy Publishing House of Tomsk University, 1994 - Total pages: 170
Almanac of contemporary Russian statesmen St. Petersburg 1897 pp 601-602

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