Doctors of the Aleksandrovskaya Provincial Zemstvo Hospital in Perm in 1870–1914: An Experiment in Prosopographical Analysis

This article presents the first attempt at a prosopographical analysis of the medical staff of the Aleksandrovskaya Provincial Zemstvo Hospital in Perm from 1870 to 1914. It draws on the author’s database, created through a frontal study of specialized zemstvo periodicals, office records, and archival materials. This article systematizes information on key indicators of the lives and activities of all 36 full-time physicians at the Aleksandrovskaya Hospital in Perm. The study identified five conventional groups of these specialists who served there during the zemstvo period (the last since 1914). The author analyzed several common characteristics in their collective biographies: significant average length of service, a high concentration of physicians with clinical training and a doctorate in medicine, and a small percentage of women. At the same time, significant differences were also found across all the groups examined, among which the uniqueness of the second group based on ethnicity stands out.