Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. Work in the army

Collection:: Economics Books

WORK IN THE ARMY 201 of the Seventh Zemstvo Detachment, which was intended for opera- tions in East Prussia. The formation of this unit was begun in the latter part of November, 1914, and it was ready to leave Moscow on December 15. One peculiar feature of this detachment was that it could in case of need be split up into several independent units. The general scheme of work was as follows: At the most advanced point near a railway station the base hospital of the detachment was set up. From this hospital, along roads practical for automobiles, field hospitals were established, and beyond these, as close as pos- sible to the battle line, horse ambulances with stretcher bearers were pushed forward. The ambulances took the wounded to the field hos- pitals, and here their wounds were dressed, they were fed, given a bath, and had their clothing and underwear cleansed and disin- fected. Those wounded who were able to endure further transport were sent by automobile to the base hospital of the detachment. Here they were registered and subjected to indispensable operations, after which the cases which required further evacuation were placed in the zemstvo hospital trains sent to the rear. The personnel of the detachment consisted of four hundred mem- bers, besides twelve surgeons. It was provided with army tents spe- cially made for the Union, bathing facilities, disinfection chambers, thirty-two automobiles, one hundred horses, and a number of wagons. The complete equipment of the Seventh Zemstvo Detach- ment, the largest of all, cost about 340,000 rubles. By December 10, 1914, the equipment of the detachment was completed. One of the field hospitals of the detachment was set up for examination and trial on the Khodynka Field on the outskirts of Moscow, at that time covered with snow. The Emperor and his family made a care- ful examination of the hospital, and the Empress presented it with a field chapel. The favorable impression produced by the hospital upon the Imperial Family greatly facilitated the Zemstvo Union’s requests for further appropriations by the Government for similar purposes. Thus a carefully considered plan of organization and operation was rapidly evolved from the haphazard equipment of the first two zemstvo detachments. In war, however, even the most carefully planned schemes very seldom work out in accordance with expecta- tion, and thus it happened that as the Seventh Detachment was about to leave for the front in East Prussia. alarming news reached

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