Krassovsky

Krassovsky Anton Yakovich (1821-1898), famous Russian obstetrician of the 19th century, 'court accoucheur' from freedmen, academician, professor of the Medico-Surgical Academy (1858-75) and director of the St. Petersburg Maternity Institution (1871-98). Author of the classic manual 'Operative Obstetrics' (St. Petersburg, 1885). This manual to the present day has not lost its significance for specialists. K. became especially famous for being the first in Russia in 1862 to perform an ovariotomy with a successful outcome. This success and further work by K. in the same direction significantly contributed to the development of operative gynecology in Russia. Krassovsky dedicated several printed works to ovariotomy, including one with a magnificent atlas with Russian and French texts ('On Ovariotomy', St. Petersburg, 1868). K. was a student of Pirogov and at his jubilee proposed to found the Moscow-St. Petersburg Society of Physicians. In 1888, he convened the first congress of this society, which marked the beginning of the Pirogov Society and Pirogov congresses. K. founded the 'Journal of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases' (St. Petersburg, 1886), as well as the St. Petersburg Obstetric-Gynecological Society (1887) - the first journal and first society in this specialty in Russia.