Through the pages of history. Art and Surgery (dedicated to Friedrich Sachs)

Friedrich Friedrichovich Sachs was born on October 29, 1918 in the village of Kamenny Ravine, Melekessky district, Samara province, in a family of Russian Germans. His father died before his son was born, so the boy was raised by his grandmother. Since childhood, he has been addicted to drawing. The first drawing that adults noticed was “Ivan the Terrible kills his son,” painted at the age of 9. After the story of his uncle, who returned from Moscow, where he visited the Tretyakov Gallery. In 1932 He came to Tomsk to his mother and continued his studies at school No. 1, then, moving to Novorossiysk (1936), graduated from high school there (1937). After receiving secondary education, F. Sachs was going to become an artist, he had loved and was able to draw well since childhood. He tried to enter the Leningrad Art Institute named after I.E. Repin, but did not pass the competition.

In 1938, he entered the medical faculty of the Tomsk Medical Institute and successfully graduated from it. Friedrich Friedrichovich immersed himself in medicine, became famous to Tomsk doctors, scientists, and a professor at the Siberian State Medical University. But he retained his love of drawing until the end of his life: he painted landscapes of the surroundings of Tomsk, portraits of his teachers and colleagues, and made drawings for scientific papers himself.

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