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[[File:Сестры Крестовоздвиженской общины, Севастополь, 1855.jpg|thumb|Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855]]

He worked as an army surgeon in the [[Crimean War]], arriving in [[Simferopol]] on 11 December 1854. From his works in the Crimea, he is considered to be the father of Russian field surgery. He followed work by [[Louis-Joseph Seutin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chu-brugmann.be/fr/histo/seutin.asp|title=Louis Seutin (1793–1862)|publisher=Brugmann|language=french}}</ref> in introducing [[Orthopedic cast|plaster cast]]s for setting broken bones, and developed a new [[Osteoplasty|osteoplastic]] method for [[amputation]] of the foot, known as the "Pirogov amputation". He was also the first to use anesthesia in the field, particularly during the [[siege of [[Sevastopol (1854–55)]], and he introduced in Russian army a system of [[triage]] – sorting wounded soldiers into five categories. He encouraged female volunteers as an organised corps of nurses, the [[Khrestovozdvizhenskaya]] ([[:ru:Крестовоздвиженская община сестёр милосердия|ru]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://encblago.lfond.spb.ru/showObject.do?object=2824182532|title= Exaltation of the Holy Cross Community of Sisters of Charity|language=russian}}</ref> at the Saint Petersburg Charity Encyclopedia community of nurses established by [[Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna]] in 1854.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2492652|title=Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855|author=Curtiss, John Shelton|year=1966|journal=Slavic Review|volume=25|issue=1|pages=84–100|accessdate=May 3, 2022|via=JSTOR|doi=10.2307/2492652|jstor=2492652 |pmid=11633166 |s2cid=43448185 }}</ref>

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