title: Letters of William Rockwell Thrall and William Lynn McMillen as a Source for Studying the Participation of American Doctors in the Crimean War
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metadata.value: Lobkov, Aleksandr E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:34:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:34:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Lobkov A. E. Letters of William Rockwell Thrall and William Lynn McMillen as a Source for Studying the Participation of American Doctors in the Crimean War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 454–467. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.209 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41704
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metadata.value: The service of American doctors in the Russian army during the Crimean war is one of the
  most interesting pages in the history of Russian-American relations. In 1854–1855, about
  40 American physicians joined the Russian army. In general, more is known about American
  doctors in the Crimean theatre of military operations. However, American doctors were also
  present on the northern front in the Baltic area, particularly, in the Russian army in Finland.
  Four Americans — Drs Thrall, McMillen, Leas, and Smyser — served in Tavastehus temporary
  military hospital. In Russian and foreign historiography, the question of foreign doctors’
  service on the northern front of the Crimean war has not been addressed, and the organization
  of the medical part of the Russian troops guarding the Baltic coast is under-researched.
  The material for this study was the letters of two American doctors, William Rockwell Thrall
  and William Lynn McMillen, published in the Daily Ohio State Journal and the Ohio Medical
  and Surgical Journal. For the first time letters from American physicians are introduced
  into scholarship. They are interesting not only as a historical source describing the condition
  of the Russian army and society during the Crimean War, but also as an example of positive
  experience of cooperation between Russia and the United States. This little-known material,
  enables to reconstruct a partial picture of American doctors’ service in Finland, their circle of
  acquaintances and their views on Russia.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: W. R. Thrall
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: W. L. McMillen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Crimean war
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finland
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tavastehus temporary military hospital
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American doctors
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of medical relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the US mass media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-American relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Letters of William Rockwell Thrall and William Lynn McMillen as a Source for Studying the Participation of American Doctors in the Crimean War
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metadata.value: Article
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