City Eye Center on Mokhovaya 38. Laser Therapy Department

The building of the eye hospital of V. V. Lerche

Eye hospital of the Department of Institutions of the Imp. Maria

1837-1840 - architect. Charlemagne Joseph I. (List...)

Eye Hospital No. 7 (united).

Research Institute of Eye Diseases named after. Girshman.

Ocular trauma center

City eye clinical consultative and diagnostic center.

Diagnostic Center No. 7 (eye)

* Article by chief doctor F.Yu. Schroeder in the book: St. Petersburg. Guide to the capital with a historical and statistical outline and description of it

Sights and institutions. - St. Petersburg, 1903. Part IV.S.56

For reference: 1 sq. fathom = 9 sq. arshins = 49 sq. feet ≈ 4.55225 m². 1 cu. fathom = 27 cubic meters arshins = 343 cubic meters feet ≈ 9.7127 m³. (nikspb)

As the St. Petersburg Gazette reports, in March 1806, the third eye hospital in Europe (after Moscow and London) opened in St. Petersburg. There were only 17 seats in it. She was subordinate to the Medical-Philanthropic Committee. It was founded by ophthalmologist Giuseppe Raineri, who successfully operated on patients and came up with special tools for this.

In 1816, the hospital, then located on Vasilyevsky Island, was headed by Vasily Vasilyevich Lerche. Lerche graduated from the University of Dorpat, took part in the War of 1812 as a regimental doctor, and then traveled extensively throughout Europe. After his marriage, Lerche arrived in St. Petersburg in 1815 and settled near the Yusupov Garden. He began to manage the only eye hospital in the city, participated in the founding of the local Society of German Doctors, and worked at the Obukhov Hospital.

In June 1823, the eye hospital was included in the form of a small eye department as part of the Obukhov Hospital on Fontanka.

A few months later, Lerche, who received the title of life ophthalmologist, managed to obtain permission to create a new hospital and organize fundraising for its maintenance. On May 1, 1824, the hospital admitted its first patients. For three years this private hospital was located near the Kazan Cathedral in the house of “clerk Blummer” (before perestroika) - emb. Griboyedov Canal, 12. One apartment with six rooms was occupied for the hospital. In March 1827, the merchant Krashennikov had his own 3-story stone house, adapted by architect. Joseph Charlemen for the eye clinic. The hospital for 40 beds was located on Fontanka, 47. In 1834, the number of patients in the eye hospital reached 7 thousand per year, which forced Lerche to think about a more spacious building.

In 1837, from the merchant Ikornikov for 75 thousand rubles. was purchased on Mokhovaya Street. wooden house, and soon the committee of the private public hospital entrusted its member, arch. Joseph Charlemagne (senior), draw up plans, facades and estimates for the new building. Until 1856, Charlemagne carried out work for the hospital for more than 30 years. Construction of the hospital began in 1837 and lasted 3 years. The modest, somewhat barracks-like facade of the 3-story building is typical of the late Empire style.

Having used a scheme with a dark central corridor in the layout, architect. Together with Lerche, he carefully thought out the finishing and equipment. An elevator was installed to lift food into the food chambers, and pneumatic Amosov stoves were installed for heating. Carpenter Dekhterev made special furniture, gardener Schroeder laid out a garden for walks in the yard.

In 1840, a new building with 80 beds opened for patients. On the ground floor there was an outpatient clinic with a separate entrance on the left, women's wards on the right, and a small church in the courtyard wing. The men's department was located on the second floor, the director and his family lived on the third.

After Lerche’s death, his son took over his post, and the clinic turned into one of the centers of Russian practical ophthalmology. Not only St. Petersburg residents, but also residents of other provinces turned here for help.

Since 1890, the hospital ran three-month courses for zemstvo doctors, and special flying medical units traveled to the countryside. In 1897, the founders of the Ophthalmological Society gathered here, and working meetings were held here.

The treatment was free. Only in the 1860s. A small paid department was opened, for which the hospital architect. Gubanov built a separate outbuilding in the courtyard. After 30 years the premises were enlarged. Well-equipped operating rooms were installed in the main building, and the wards for paying patients were expanded (architects Baranovsky and Ikavits). A few years later, a southern wing was built for the children's department (architect Fedorov).

As the best eye treatment facility in Russia, the hospital participated in the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. At the Paris Exhibition in 1900, it received a bronze medal and a diploma.

In Soviet times, the hospital housed the Research Institute of Eye Diseases named after. Girshman.

At the time of writing the article (?), the city ophthalmological hospital, which operates an eye trauma center, was the methodological center of the ophthalmological service of Leningrad.

On the main staircase there is a bust of Vasily Vasilyevich Lerche.

(A. Kobak. article “Clinic on Mokhovaya”, gas. Evening Leningrad?, Mary)

1843: “The eye hospital, on Mokhovaya Street, in its own building. Established by Doctor Lerche in 1816, and was first under the jurisdiction of the Medical-Philanthropic Committee. Over time, this hospital received a new transformation for 46 beds and was separated from the Committee.
In 1839, she was provided with a better device; a most excellent building was built for the premises, and the number of beds was increased to 68. It is divided into two sections: men's and women's; in the first there are 39, and in the second 29.

(Guide to St. Petersburg and its environs by Ivan Pushkarev. - St. Petersburg, 1843. P. 426)

St. Petersburg State Healthcare Institution "Diagnostic Center No. 7" (eye)

1849: Eye hospital - Mokhovaya Street (City index or Address book... for 1850. St. Petersburg, 1849. P. 31)

1896: Departments of imperial institutions. Maria. Eye hospital - Mokhovaya, 38 (Address of the university for 1896. O. 1. Stb. 519)

1903: Eye hospital. Outpatient and inpatient departments (VPb for 1893. O. 1. Col. 605)

1917: V.U.I.M. Eye Hospital - Mokhovaya, 38 (VPG as of 1917)

1923, 1924: Eye hospital named after. Girshman, Mokhovaya, 38. ("All Petrograd - 1923". P. 57), ("All Leningrad - 1924". P. 105).

1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931: Eye Hospital named after. Girshmana, Mokhovaya, 38.

("All Leningrad - 1925". P. 104), ("All Leningrad - 1926". P. 104), ("All Leningrad - 1927". P. 106), ("All Leningrad and the region - 1928". With . 127), ("All Leningrad and the region - 1929". P. 106), ("All Leningrad and the region - 1930". P. 115), ("All Leningrad - 1931". P. 124).

1928: Eye Hospital named after. Girshman (p. 30)

1932, 1933: Department of Eye Diseases of the State Institute for Advanced Medical Training (GIDUV);

Leningrad Ophthalmological Scientific and Practical Institute (former Girshman Hospital), Mokhovaya, 38.

("All Leningrad - 1932". P. 43, 116), ("All Leningrad - 1933". P. 300, 375).

1934, 1935: Department of Eye Diseases of the State Institute for Advanced Medical Training (GIDUV);

Leningrad Ophthalmological Scientific and Practical Institute.

("All Leningrad - 1934". P. 273, 366), ("All Leningrad - 1935". P. 321, 435).

1937, 1939: Ophthalmological Scientific and Practical Institute, Mokhovaya, 38.

("1937 - Leningrad list of subscribers", p. 239), ("Leningrad - 1939", p. 311).

1940: Scientific and Practical Ophthalmological Institute [sic] - Mokhovaya st., 38 - ("Leningrad. Guide", 1940. P. 418)

1940: Associate Professor of Eye Diseases at the State Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians named after. CM. Kirov;

Ophthalmological Scientific and Practical Institute, Mokhovaya, 38. (“Leningrad - 1940”, pp. 313, 398).

1965: Leningrad City Eye Hospital- Mokhovaya, 38

Polyclinic of the City United Eye Hospital - Mokhovaya, 40. (p. 15, 141)

1973: Eye Hospital No. 7 (merged), Mokhovaya, 38. (, p. 53).

1976: City Eye Hospital No. 7, Mokhovaya, 38.

("Quick reference book LGTS-1976", P. 56). In the hospital directory - No. 2, most likely there is a typo.

1978, 1982, 1988: City Ophthalmological Hospital No. 7, Mokhovaya, 38.

("List of LGTS-1978 subscribers", p. 26), ("List of LGTS-1982 subscribers", p. 33), (, p. 64).

1933: Nursery No. 70, Mokhovaya st., 38. (All Leningrad - 1933." P. 403).

1934,1935: Nursery No. 70, Smolninsky district, Mokhovaya st., 38. ("All Leningrad - 1934". P. 372), ("All Leningrad - 1935". P. 441).

1937, 1939, 1940: Nursery No. 70, Dzerzhinsky district No. 43, Mokhovaya st., 38.

(1937-Leningrad list of subscribers, p. 333), ("Leningrad - 1939", p. 329), ("Leningrad - 1940", p. 419).

In 1965, nursery No. 70 was located at Mokhovaya, 37.

In 2001, included by KGIOP in the “List of newly identified objects of historical, scientific, artistic or other cultural value” (1895)