the church of the archangel michael of the mikhailovsky palace on this november 1854, a prayer service solemn dedication of the sisters of mercy of the holy cross community are held here , the next day 32 sisters of mercy are again doctors, the whole group is headed by nikolai ivanovich pirogov, already in the army , the crimean war was going after the prayer service. the priest laid crosses on the sisters of mercy and for matter, then they began to be made of metal from here, the red cross, a symbol of helping the wounded, counts from this event. and in general , medicine, by the way, the british are our opponents in the crimean war. later, pirogov also sent their nurses to the east , the group headed miss, you know, pirogov arrives landed sevastopol, he called the war a traumatic epidemic, because in the war resources and forces are limited, there are not enough doctors, medicines, dressings. and the flow of the wounded is huge, what would another brilliant surgeon do in a besieged city, i would have rushed to operate, and nikolai ivanovich pirogov began by putting things in order at