Scientific activity of Academician V.M. Bekhterev (1912-1975)

Photographs of V.M. Bekhterev from the 1900s and 1910s during academic councils and scientific events.

Photographs of Bekhterev.

Photographs of Bekhterev among medical students and faculty.

Photograph of a sign for a student consumer society and students standing under it.

Text of a warning from the Police Department to the Psychoneurological Institute.

Newsreel: the building of the Psychoneurological Institute in St.

Petersburg in 1912, a car approaches the gates. V.M. Bekhterev stands on the entrance steps among the institute's employees.

Text of a report to the Police Department about a meeting of the St.

Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP in the building of the Psychoneurological Institute.

Photograph of Police Department employees doing office work.

The cover of Bekhterev's file at the Police Department.

Titles of publications of Bekhterev's scientific works in the field of psychiatry and human nervous and mental activity.

A photograph of Bekhterev among the students of the Military Medical Academy, Bekhterev in a photograph.

Newsreel: leaflets being distributed on the streets of Petrograd during the February Revolution of 1917. Portrait of Bekhterev.

Demonstrations on the streets of Moscow and Petrograd in the early 1920s.

A demonstration in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern leaves the Smolny grounds through a temporary arch on July 19, 1920. A photograph of Bekhterev among the staff of the Institute for the Study of the Brain and Mental Activity at the entrance to the institute building in the 1920s.

Photographs of Bekhterev during scientific experiments.

Newsreel: Bekhterev at work, Bekhterev's face.

A train arriving at a station during the Civil War, bagmen on the roofs of the carriages.

The faces of homeless children shivering from the cold.

The faces of children emaciated from hunger.

Bekhterev during a winter walk in the early 1920s.

The text of Bekhterev's protest against the food blockade, published in the newspaper "Petrogradskaya Pravda." Doctors examine children evacuated from the starving Volga region.

Children being given clothing and shoes at an orphanage.

Children having lunch, children's faces.

A photograph of Bekhterev with his wife and children.

Drawings by Bekhterev's children.

Titles of Bekhterev's scientific papers on childhood neuropsychiatric disorders.

Photographs of doctors examining sick children.

Testing a child at the Bekhterev Institute in the 1970s.

Newsreel from the first half of the 1920s: Bekhterev giving a lecture.

View of the audience during Bekhterev's lecture.

Photo portrait of Bekhterev's wife in his youth.

Portraits of Bekhterev in his youth.

Photographs of Bekhterev in an album.

Fragments of engravings and paintings from the ancient and medieval periods.

Illustration for an ancient medical treatise on human brain function.

Photograph of Bekhterev conducting research in the laboratory.

The interior of Bekhterev's office.

Photographs of Bekhterev in his home office.

Engraving depicting the "Vitruvian Man." Photographs of surgical operations on the human brain.

X-ray examination of the brain in the 1970s.

X-ray images of the brain.

The title of Bekhterev's book on neuropsychiatric observations.

Photographs of students of the Military Medical Academy in the early 20th century.

A photograph of Bekhterev in uniform.

Photographs of Bekhterev's patients during research.

Medieval drawings of the treatment of psychiatric patients and exorcism.

Photographs of patients of the Bekhterev clinic undergoing treatment and rehabilitation through agricultural labor.

Photographs of Bekhterev among students at the Military Medical Academy and during hypnosis sessions.

Titles of Bekhterev's works on suggestion and hypnosis.

Newsreel footage: Bekhterev conducting a hypnosis session in the early 1920s.