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mattresses, pillows) part was gone, taken ‘at the departure of French wounded officers’ from Moscow; that ‘our Hospital of Golitsyn was called the main one of all the Moscow hospitals in which there was a sentry and in which generals, staff and subaltern officers, with a small number of their private soldiers, were hospitalized [100–160 died], there were also the Russian Service Staff and subaltern officers with private soldiers’ but there were no medical hospital officials – ‘the observation and the use were French’. The Hospital of Golitsyn appeared among those few medical establishments in Moscow that actually suffered from military action and fire. Moreover, as all Moscow drugstores plundered, the executive director SM Golitsyn in August 1813 organized the sale of medicines to the inhabitants of Moscow at the hospital and he wrote ‘the distribution of medicines with fixed price in no way contradicted that charitable intention with which the institution’ was founded. Since that time, for many decades the drugstore at the Hospital of Golitsyn was the only one of all hospital drugstores in Russia that utilised the right of free sale of medicines. After the war of 1812 Moscow suffered from the great fire and robberies but was quickly built up again. The need to expand the Hospital of Golitsyn was more and more urgent, and at least a hundred beds had been developed before the war. In 1813, 50 beds were developed and then another 25 beds were added such that by the following year the general number of beds was once more increased and simultaneously hospitalized 115 patients. SM Golitsyn took the maintenance of 10 of the 115 of beds and these beds were assigned to his serfs to whom each month he paid 20 roubles in bank notes for each patient. With the aim of further improvement in hospital business in 1815, detailed rules and instructions for all employees were published: the basis of these was the desire ‘to achieve the best order in every respect at this institution and to complete the good intentions of the bequest’. Then at the start of the 19th century a new large city hospital was opened in Moscow that quickly became one of the best medical institutions of the city. The peculiar feature of the Hospital of Golitsyn was free treatment of the poor and deprived. The Hospital of Golitsyn from the first years of its existence has proved to be an advanced medical institution and this is in large part due to Professor EO Mukhin. The remarkable scientist and the doctor-expert, the author of the first national manual on traumatology and orthopaedics, proved himself to be the greatest surgeon of his time. Here at the Hospital of Golitsyn he performed complex surgery that aroused the constant interest of his colleagues and the wider public. In 1835 Mukhin retired and spent his last years in the manor of Koltsovka of the Smolensk Province where he died in 1850.