ALEXEY IVANOVICH VASIL’EV - THE ARCHITECT OF THE MODERN SYSTEM OF MILITARY MEDICAL EDUCATION: THE 275th ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH

One of the greatest statesmen of the Russian Empire in the late XVIII century, count Aleksei Ivanovich Vasil’ev, is one of the few personalities who have left their mark in different fields - Finance and health care. Being a financier by education and the main duration of activity and having done much for formation of harmonious budgetary policy of Russia, he was able to reconstruct system of health care and medical education, to turn the medical and surgical schools located in St. Petersburg into the Academy which became the basis of medical education in Russia