The organization of servicing of sick and wounded soldiers in hospitals and infirmaries of the All-Russian zemsky union in the 1914 - the early 1917 (on materials of the Perm province)

The article deals with the organization of treatment and maintenance of social needs of sick and wounded soldiers during the First World War on the materials of the institutions of the All-Russian Zemsky Union that operated on the territory of the Perm province. The problem is analyzed on the basis of empirical data from published and archival sources. The thesis is substantiated that the All-Russian Zemsky Union, its provincial Committee, and departments played the main role in organizing the servicing of the needs of the sick and wounded on the territory of the Perm province. The author focuses on the main directions of their activity in this sphere: creation and equipment of a network of hospitals and infirmaries, providing them with personnel, solving issues of financing, coordination and control, attracting and using money and clothing donations from organizations and the population. She stresses the role of amateur public associations (Trustees, Ladies’ committees, Committees of Zemstvo servants, etc.), various forms of institutionalization of public initiative, and private charity in servicing the needs of sick and wounded soldiers. The author substantiates the thesis about uniting the efforts of the authorities and public organizations in this matter despite of a number of problems and difficulties in its implementation. She has revealed the peculiarities of the organization of treatment and maintenance of social needs of the sick and wounded soldiers by the Zemsky Union in the Perm province.