A Russian Missionary Hospital in Istanbul: Pangalt？ Nikolaev Hospital

The Russian Nikolaev Hospital, built in 1875 in Ni？anta？？ Pangalt？ providing health services until the first years of the Republic and left deep traces in the Slavic-Orthodox world of Istanbul. The hospital was constructed with the great efforts of the Russian ambassador Ignatiev who was a strict Pan-slavist, the voluntary persons, and institutions, especially the Aynoroz Russian Monasteries. Nikolaev hospital did not only offered free health assistance to Russian and Orthodox in needs living in Istanbul, it also became the most comprehensive outpost for health, religion, and education serving Russia’s Slavic brotherhood in the Ottoman capital. In the Russian Hospital, which used to modern health service methods according to possibility of the period, served the Slavic-Orthodox leaders, members of the Russian embassy, and the disciplined, self-sacrificing, faithful people who believed in the policy of Russia and living in Istanbul. The detailed information given about the hospital in our study is obtained from the book of V. P. ？epotyev, a doctor of Moscow University who came to Istanbul as the chief physician in 1890 and served in this hospital for many years. ？epotyev, who gave the hospital institutional identity, summarized the first 25 years of the hospital in his work titled Dvadtsatipyatiletiye Russkoy Nikolayevskoy Bol’nits？ v Konstantinopole (S. Peterburg 1900)