June 5 — by decree of Tsar Peter I “to establish in Moscow, beyond the Yauza River, opposite the German Quarter, a lazaretto for the treatment of wounded soldiers of the Russian army,” a military hospital was opened in Moscow (now the N.N. Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital), which became the first state medical institution in Russia.
In the hospital building, the first Medical and Surgical School was also established, headed by Peter I’s personal physician, court physician Nikolay Bidloo.
In 1770–1771, the hospital fought a plague epidemic; it treated those wounded in the Patriotic War of 1812 and during other wars—up to the present day.