Vyacheslav Avksentievich Manassein. Biographical sketch (with portrait)

February 13 Art. Art. 1926 will mark 25 years since the great doctor-teacher of life Vyacheslav Avksentievich Manassein left us, and all the good things associated with this dear name vividly rises before our eyes. The past 25th anniversary, outstanding for its grandiose events in Russian life, will forever remain memorable in the history of the country; but it overshadowed by its magnitude much that had happened before these years, including the glorious life and the charming figure of the doctor-teacher, who played a certain role in the preparation of the events experienced. The duty of us, who had the unforgettable happiness of learning from Vyacheslav Avksentievich, is to revive in the memory of contemporaries and give young doctors at least a faint sketch of who was and what the “clergyman of the secular church”, a true teacher of life and friend of the disadvantaged, was doing. His life was unusually modest and simple, without any loud and brilliant speeches and events, proceeding in tireless work and care for others; but, as a true teacher of life, V.A. can stand next to two outstanding Russian doctors: N.I. Pirogov and S.P. Botkin.