Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The Russian Nikolaev Hospital, built in 1875 in Nişantaşı Pangaltı providing health services until the

first years of the Republic and left deep traces in the Slavic-Orthodox world of Istanbul. The hospital was

constructed with the great efforts of the Russian ambassador Ignatiev who was a strict Pan-slavist, the

voluntary persons, and institutions, especially the Aynoroz Russian Monasteries. Nikolaev hospital did not

only offered free health assistance to Russian and Orthodox in needs living in Istanbul, it also became

the most comprehensive outpost for health, religion, and education serving Russia’s Slavic brotherhood

in the Ottoman capital. In the Russian Hospital, which used to modern health service methods according

to possibility of the period, served the Slavic-Orthodox leaders, members of the Russian embassy, and the

disciplined, self-sacrificing, faithful people who believed in the policy of Russia and living in Istanbul. The

detailed information given about the hospital in our study is obtained from the book of V. P. Şepotyev,

a doctor of Moscow University who came to Istanbul as the chief physician in 1890 and served in this

hospital for many years. Şepotyev, who gave the hospital institutional identity, summarized the first 25 years

of the hospital in his work titled Dvadtsatipyatiletiye Russkoy Nikolayevskoy Bol’nitsı v Konstantinopole (S.

Peterburg 1900).