Sergey Golishtsev Biography

Professor Glossov: you need to know ... God is! The date of publication as surgery tempted the saint when he was serving a link in Arkhangelsk? The historian of medicine Sergey Pavlovich Glovtsev thinks about this in his books. Professor Glovtsov wrote more than a thousand popular science and literary works, including articles in the new Russian encyclopedia. His attention is drawn to the biographies of outstanding people, their heritage, the unexplored history of domestic medicine.

Recently visiting his hometown on Dvina, Sergei Pavlovich received the blessing of Metropolitan Daniel to reprint the book “Saint Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky in the Northern Territory” and spoke about his plan. At one of the scientific conferences, I made a report on his northern link and emphasized that Saint Luke experienced surgery at that time. Distracted from ministry, he literally plunged into her.

He refused the department, decided to create an institution of purulent surgery, but began to blind ... Then the understanding came that the Lord opposed the choice. When I said this from the rostrum, the hall was divided into two parts: some supported me, others said that such things could not be said about saints. In my book, I tried to consider comprehensively to consider the fate of Archbishop Luke: to tell about a man who became a saint, but during his lifetime was a temptation.

At first I was attracted by the personality of the surgeon. I was engaged in purulent surgery, defended the dissertation on this topic and, of course, my approaches were interested in me from a professional point of view. But at the same time, my attention was also aimed at the history of surgery. In general, history is inextricably linked with the "resurrection of souls." We cannot resurrect a person, but, extracting him from oblivion historically, we “resurrect” his soul for contemporaries.

The more people I will write about the larger number of people, the more souls I will return to our time and, perhaps, to the future. In the XIX century, Pirogov was an outstanding, high -level professor of surgery. After the Crimean war, he switched to the Niva of the Enlightenment. Now we have the Ministry of Education, and in tsarist Russia there was a Ministry of Education.

What is education? This education is plus education. How to educate a person?

Only morally. Morality is drawn from religion. Pirogov is great in that he has introduced a moral beginning to surgery. There can be no medicine without the moral principle of medicine. At a meeting with Patriarch Kirill in our center, I asked the question: “Or maybe morality outside religion? Could a person living in the 19th century be considered moral without being believers?

He replied that in that century it was unambiguously impossible to consider himself moral without being believers. Yes, and in our century, the Holiness continued, since all the foundations of morality came out of religion. I, satisfied, sat down. After the meeting, an academician, an outstanding surgeon, approached me, and says: "Sergey Pavlovich, I am not a believer, but I am a moral person." Well, everyone decides for himself.

You consider yourself moral - very good, you do not believe in God, but it exists, even if you do not believe in it. The academician thought ... - How did the thought come that you need to publish a book about St. Luke? After reading about Archbishop Luke the book of Mark Popovsky, his first biographer, I realized that the author was not in Arkhangelsk. The idea arose that in the regional archive some documents on the stay of the saint in the city were probably preserved.

In one of the visits, I really found several interesting things and concluded that no one worked with them - after all, the use of the documents was made, but they were not. My first publication was released in the year in the newspaper Pravda North. Then, in the authoritative journal "Annals of Surgery", I printed material about the scientific activity of the saint. Responses began to come, and so the material gradually accumulated.

When the Northern State Medical University opened the audience named after St. Luke Voino-Yasenetsky and the exposition dedicated to him, the decision came to write a book. It included material about the main medical work of the Lord “Essays on purulent Surgery” - in 80 years only six editions of “Essays”, five in Russia and one in Greece. With Galina Checkskaya, we compiled the largest bibliography of the works of the saint and books about him.

The bibliography includes almost a thousand sources, and people use it as a reference. The book is interesting not only by the fact that it contains data on the life and ministry of the saint in Arkhangelsk, but also the material about “Essays on purulent Surgery” - the only one in Russia, no one else was engaged in this topic, I also spoke about the museum at the Arkhangelsk Medical University.

The book quickly parted in Russia, it is in Greece. Time passed - five years, new information has accumulated, constructive criticism that I would like to take into account. And so, the second edition is being prepared. I hope the book will be unique. Now there are a lot of reprints, insinuations, speculations, as always happens: “I was with him, I saw it,” and so on, but we need to separate the grains from the challeries.

Many believe that for him she turned out to be easy. I want to show that the stay here in spiritual terms was painful!Excommunicated from ministry, he wanted to leave him. The saint thought not to pull away from God, but from the ministry. In November, Grace Luke was offered to occupy a free episcopal department, but he did not accept the proposal. I wondered the question of “why” and tried to prove that, of course, the lord was tempted by surgery.

The desire to do only medicine, study the methods of treatment of RAS, establish the institute and the rejection of the department, I believe that the Arkhangelsk link was very difficult for the saint, but he came out of it spiritually stronger man, and this helped to transfer the third link and all subsequent trials. Having hardened here, the Vladyka believed that he should combine the service of God with the service of surgery.

I did not want to leave medicine and decided to deal with its history. And the story, as Ilya Semenovich Melnikov said in the film “We will live until Monday,” is a science that makes a citizen out of a person, that is, the one who has a moral beginning. I realized that this is the path on which you serve not only your specialty, but also people. For myself, I recently brought such an imperative: you need to know that God exists!

You can believe, but the scientist must know that the Lord exists. God is an objective existence, only ideal. The scientist, who calls himself an atheist, tries to approach the absolute truth, absolute knowledge. Any knowledge is relative, but it ultimately, ideally, should come close to absolute knowledge. It will never achieve it. The larger the scientist, the more he knows, the closer he is to God.

What is the Almighty of the mind, absolute truth, absolute knowledge. God is, you need to know that he is otherwise that you study, as a scientist? The device of the world? But who created this world?