Dorf

Dorf, David Yakovlevich (1869-1920), one of the most popular public physicians in the period 1905-16. After graduating from university in 1892, he worked in zemstvo hospitals of the Moscow province and actively participated in the Pirogov Society. In 1905, at the Pirogov "cholera* congress" (Moscow) in the closing session, he presented the congress resolution, which invited all Russian physicians to "organize for an energetic struggle hand-in-hand with the working masses against the autocratic-bureaucratic system for its complete elimination." The resolution, ending with the slogan "Down with autocracy," was unanimously adopted by the congress. From this moment began the "wandering" period of D.'s life, which included imprisonment in Butyrskaya prison, exile to the Arkhangelsk province, foreign travel; upon return - administrative non-confirmation in positions, etc.). During the war, D. worked in the Zemstvo Union; in 1917 he was elected to the Moscow City Duma. After the October Revolution, he was the most active leader of the group of physicians from the Pirogov Society who sharply opposed the October Revolution. In the last years of his life, he worked in cooperative organizations.