Template:Did you know nominations/Vera Gedroits


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:44, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Vera Gedroits

 * ... that Princess Vera Gedroits—good author but bad poet; lesbian but married a man; doctor but taught nursing to royals—was a Russian female military surgeon, who pioneered battlefield laparotomy? Source: Her epic poems were labeled by G. Ivanov as "особенно неприятны" (especially unpleasant)p 294, but her prose was called "outstanding"p 156; "в 1894 г. Вера вступает в фиктивный брак с поручиком Николаем Белозеровым...княжна Гедройц никогда не скрывала: в духе модных веяний феминизма она была активным адептом однополой женской любви" (in 1894, Vera entered into a fictitious marriage with lieutenant Nikolai Belozerov...Princess Gedroits never hid that as a feminist she was an active adherent of same-sex female love), Dr. Vera Gedroits, one of the first women to qualify as a doctor in Russia…during their training the three women (Tsarina Alexandra, Dutchesses Olga and Tatiana)p 189; одной из первых  в  России  женщин-хирургов, профессора, Георгиевского кавалера, участницы Русско-японской и Первой мировой войн, поэтессы и прозаика княжны Веры Игнатьевны Гедройц (one of the first women surgeons in Russia, a professor, Knight in the order of Saint George, participant in the Russian-Japanese and the First World War, the poetess and prose writer Princess Vera Ignatyevna Gedroits)p 1 and "Dr.  Gedroits' largely unrecognized contribution to military surgery was the adoption of laparotomy for penetrating abdominal wounds...innovative treatment in the Russo-Japanese war, deserves remembering"p 159
 * ALT1:... that Princess Vera Gedroits pioneered abdominal surgery in a medical train on the Russo-Japanese front? "Dr.  Gedroits' largely unrecognized contribution to military surgery was the adoption of laparotomy for penetrating abdominal wounds...innovative treatment in the Russo-Japanese war, deserves remembering"p 159 and Princess Gedroits, chief surgeon of the hospital train furnished by the associated nobility1532
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Celia Brackenridge
 * Comment: Please run in June for Pride Month

Improved to Good Article status by SusunW (talk), Alanna the Brave (talk), GRuban (talk), and Ipigott (talk). Nominated by SusunW (talk) at 21:48, 19 June 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svgSymbol voting keep.svg Exceptional biography! Nominated same day as GA approval. New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online sources. All images freely licensed. For June Pride month, I actually like the first hook, though I would remove the 3rd qualifier, as follows:
 * ALT0a: ... that Princess Vera Gedroits (pictured)—good author but bad poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian female military surgeon who pioneered battlefield laparotomy?
 * I'd also like to suggest cropping this image, so the subject stands out and also so the caption isn't so long:


 * QPQ done. ALT0a good to go. Yoninah (talk) 19:23, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much Change it as you like. So much to choose from and such a remarkable life. I have no idea how to crop a photo that is already on WP. Maybe someone can help with that? SusunW (talk) 19:29, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've reserved a slot for this hook and image in Prep 5 – June 30. Yoninah (talk) 20:02, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you,, for cropping the image and posting it above. But the enlarged image looks so grainy that I suggest we go with the group picture of her and her patients. Yoninah (talk) 13:58, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I did crop that picture too but the group may still be best. Victuallers (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2018 (UTC)