Vasily Pavlovich Kravkov was born a fourth child in the family of a non-commissioned officer Pavel Alexeyevich Kravkov, who served as a senior clerk in the office of the Chief Enlistment Officer of the Ryazan Governorate.
18 Facts About Vasily Kravkov
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From 1871 to 1878, Kravkov attended the First Ryazan Gymnasium.
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In November 1883, Vasily Kravkov joined military service as a junior physician of the 26th Mogilevsky Infantry Regiment, then at the end of the year was transferred to the 159th Guriysky Infantry Regiment.
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In 1886, Vasily Kravkov was attached to the Orenburg Local Battalion where he served as a senior physician since 1887.
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In February 1888, Vasily Kravkov received a rank of Titular Councilor with precedence since 1883, in May 1888 for long service he was promoted to Collegiate Assessor with precedence since 1886.
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In 1889 Vasily Kravkov was sent to the Imperial Military Medical Academy for "improvement in sciences".
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In subsequent years Vasily Kravkov held posts of senior physician of the 137th Nezhinsky Infantry Regiment, of the Bryansk Local Arsenal, of the 138th Bolkhovsky Infantry Regiment.
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From 1904 to 1905, Vasily Kravkov participated in the Russo-Japanese War.
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From 1906 to 1908, Vasily Kravkov served in Moscow as a Corps physician, From 1908 to 1910, he was a physician of the 53rd and later 62nd Infantry Reserve Brigade in Yaroslavl.
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Since April 1916 Vasily Kravkov served as a VII Siberian Army Corps doctor.
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Vasily Kravkov was in charge of it up to the autumn of 1919.
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From 1880 to 1900, Vasily Kravkov published a number of works on certain problems of practical medicine.
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Vasily Kravkov left notes of the periods from 1904 to 1906 and 1914 to 1917.
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In 1919 Vasily Kravkov donated his manuscripts to the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow, now they are kept in the Department of personal funds of the Russian State Library.
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In 1892 Vasily Kravkov married Elena Alexeyevna Lukina, from the family of hereditary gentry of Ryazan Governorate.
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Vasily Kravkov's son Sergey Vasilyevich Kravkov was a Soviet psychologist and psychophysiologist.
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Vasily Kravkov's brother was Nikolai Kravkov, a prominent Russian pharmacologist.
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Vasily Kravkov's nephew was Maximilian Alexeyevich Kravkov, a Soviet Siberian writer.