Dasha from Sevastopol
Darya Lavrentyevna Mikhailova (
modern nursing - in parallel to the work of Florence Nightingale
.
Mikhailova was born in a village near
Battle of Sinope in 1853. She was a 17-year-old orphan when the Crimean War
broke out in 1853.
Before the war, she worked as a laundress and
Battle of Alma (September 1854). She set up a nursing station, using vinegar and strips of her clothing to clean and dress the soldiers' wounds. She was the first Imperial Russian Army sister of charity (Russian: сестра милосердия) during the Crimean War.[citation needed
]
The Emperor Nicholas I (died 1855) awarded her the
Order of St. Vladimir with a gold medal "For diligence".[citation needed] She was the only lower-class Russian woman to receive this award. She was also given a reward of 1500 silver rubles
. She married Private Maksim Khvorostov in 1855.
The couple ran an inn in a village, then moved to Nikolaev, but Dasha eventually returned to Sevastopol where she ran a tavern and worked in a hospital. When she retired, she was presented with an icon of Christ bought with donations from her patients. She died in Shelanga, near her home village, in 1892.
Asteroid 3321
is named in her memory (3321 Dasha 1975 TZ2 Darya Lavrentyevna Mikhailova).
See also
- Red Crossactive during the Crimean War
References
- Based on the article at Russian Wikipedia on 13 December 2011
- http://great._russian_-women.net/Dasha_Sevastopolskaya.shtml[permanent dead link] (without the first two underscores - for some reason it is blacklisted)
