Nikolaevskaya Children’s Hospital

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NIKOLAEVSKAYA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (13 Chapygina Street) was the first children’s hospital in Russia. It was opened in 1834 with the aid of private donations on Ekaterininsky Canal near the Alarchin Bridge; in 1842 it was relocated to a reconstructed building of the Control Department of Military Taxes at 30 Bolshaya Podyacheskaya Street; in 1859 it was renamed Nikolaevskaya (in memory of the Emperor Nicholas I). It was maintained with the financial support of the Department of Institutions of the Empress Maria, and later funded by the City Duma. The count A.C. Benckendorff, L.V. Dubelt, and Urals manufacturer A.N. Demidov were among the curators. The hospital had the glory of being "the well-equipped and highly useful children’s medical institution". In 1914-16 the new building at 13 Vologodskaya Street (now Chapygina Street), was erected (architect A.G. Golubkov). In the early 1920s the first milk kitchen in St. Petersburg, Milk Drop, and a sanitary department in Sestroretsk were attached to the hospital. In 1918 it was named after N.F. Filatov. In the 1920s a new wing was erected. It was a clinical hospital for 400 beds and the practice site of the Leningrad Paediatric Medical Institute and the First Leningrad Medical Institute. During the Great Patriotic War the hospital suffered serious damages and was reconstructed in the late 1940s. At the end of the 1990s it was made a nameless part of the Centre of Children’s Psychiatry, and later closed for the reconstruction.

References: Шмелева О. А. Николаевская детская больница // Памятники истории и культуры Санкт-Петербурга: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1997. Вып. 4. С. 282-290; Грекова Т. И., Голиков Ю. П. Медицинский Петербург. СПб., 2001. С. 355-357.

T. I. Grekova. Benckendorff Alexander Krristoforovich
Demidov Akinfy Nikitich
Dubelt Leonty Vasilievich
Filatov Nil Fedorovich
Golubkov Alexey Grigorievich
Maria Fedorovna, Empress
Nicholas I, Emperor
Bolshaya Podyacheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 30
Chapygina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Шмелева О. А. Николаевская детская больница // Памятники истории и культуры Санкт-Петербурга: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1997
Голиков Ю. П., Грекова Т. И. Медицинский Петербург. СПб., 2001. Empress Maria's Department of Institutions
City Duma
1834