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Vera Gedroits

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The Resume

    (April 19, 1870-March 1932)
    Born in Slobodische, Russia
    Military surgeon during the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and Russian Revolution
    Royal Physician (1909-17)
    Wrote 'Poems and Fairy Tales' (1910), 'Chinese Fables' (1913), 'Red Angel' (1914), and three semi-autobiographical novels, 'Life,' 'The Pole,' and 'The Separation' (all published in 1931)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was expelled from high school for playing pranks on her teachers.
    Despite being openly lesbian, she entered into a marriage of convenience to get a passport to travel to Switzerland to study medicine.
    She was a heavy smoker.
    She published using the male pseudonym Sergei Gedroits.
    A critic described her epic poems as 'especially unpleasant.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    During the Russo-Japanese War, she pioneered in performing abdominal surgery on the wounded near the front.
    She trained Czarina Alexandra and her daughters Olga and Tatianna as nurses, with the daughters assisting her in surgeries.
    During World War I, she went to the front as chief surgeon of the 6th Siberian Rifle Regiment.
    She was the first woman to become a professor of surgery.
    During the Stalinist purges, she was forced to resign and denied a pension (1930).

Credit: C. Fishel


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    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
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    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying