Elpatyevsky

Elpatyevsky, Sergei Yakolevich (born in 1854), physician and public health activist, writer. After graduating in 1878 from the medical faculty of Moscow University, he took a position as a district physician in the Ryazan province, where two years later he was arrested and, after 6 months of imprisonment, was administratively exiled to Ufa. Here E. lived for four years, first working in the provincial hospital, and then as a physician at the Blagoveshchensk factory near Ufa. In 1884 E. was sent to Eastern Siberia for revolutionary propaganda. After serving his exile term, in 1887 he settled in Nizhny Novgorod and for 9 years worked as an outpatient physician and member of the sanitary commission. In 1897 he moved to Yalta, in 1922 to Moscow, where until 1928 he served as a physician at the outpatient clinic of the Sanitary Administration of the Kremlin. To the pen of E. belongs a whole series of essays on urban and zemstvo medicine, published in the 1890s in Volga newspapers and in the 1900s in "Russkoye Bogatstvo"; he actively participated in the Pirogov congresses, was chairman of the Pirogov cholera congress (1905) and one of the founders of the first Public Sanatorium in Yalta—"Yauzlar". His first literary work dates from 1881; in 1886 his novel "Ozyom" was printed in "Severny Vestnik", then three volumes of "Essays and Stories", "Stories of the Past" and two books of literary memoirs were published, in which E. described his meetings with L. Tolstoy, A. Chekhov and other luminaries of Russian literature.