Abstract
Today, the ingenious and untimely deceased surgeon Monastyrski’s name is almost lost in the history of medicine and says little if any to young surgeons. Monastyrski Nestor Dmitrievich was born in 1847 in Czerniowce, graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Vienna. Deeply inspired by the stars of European medicine and surgery Billroth, Kaposi, Mikulicz, he became a brilliant surgeon and teacher. Monastyrski performed the first gastroenterostomy in Russia, was one of the pioneers of aseptic method in Russia. In May 1887 he performed the historical first cholecystojejunostomy in the world. In 1888, exhausted by a tumor of the right kidney, Monastyrski insisted on surgery which just brought to his death within several hours. The department of surgery which was founded by Monastyrski N.D. in the Clinical Institute of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (today – North-Western State Medical Academy named after I.I. Mechnikov) was named after him.
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MG contributed to the conception, design and definition of intellectual content, literature search, data acquisition and analysis, manuscript preparation and final review of the work and agreed with all aspects of the work; KK contributed to the conception, design and definition of intellectual content, literature search, data analysis, manuscript preparation and final review of the work and agreed with all aspects of the work.
