Burdenko Hospital

Nikolay Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital is the main military hospital of the Russian Armed Forces. The hospital is located in Moscow and is under the jurisdiction of the Main Military Medical Directorate. It has branches in Balashikha and Sergeyev Posad 6. History The hospital ("Military Hospital") was founded on May 25 (June 5), 1706 in Lefortovo by decree of Peter the Great and became the first state medical institution in Russia. The founder of the hospital (and the first medical school in Russia attached to it) was Nikolai Bidloo who he led the hospital until his death in 1738, a Dutch doctor who had previously been the personal physician of Peter I. It received the first patients on November 21 (December 2), 1707. The first stone building for the hospital was built in 1756. The main building of the hospital, which has survived to this day, was built in 1798–1802 according to the project of the architect Ivan Egotov In 1756 it was expanded to 1000 seats. From 1707 to 1739, the hospital had three departments, for patients with internal, infectious and external diseases. In 1737–1757, a department for venereal patients, obstetric and surgical departments were opened. There were special rooms for performing operations and an anatomical room where autopsies of the dead were performed. In 1756, the country's first psychiatric department was opened at the hospital. Subsequently, other departments were created in it.