Dasha from Sevastopol, born Darya Lavrentyevna Mikhailova in November 1836 and dead in 1892, was a Russian nurse during the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856. Her father, a sailor in the Imperial Russian Navy, was killed at the Battle of Sinope in 1853, leaving her an orphan of seventeen who had worked as a laundress and needlewoman for naval personnel. When war came she went to the battlefield at the Battle of Alma in September 1854 and set up a nursing station, using vinegar and strips of her own clothing to clean and dress soldiers wounds. She was the first Imperial Russian Army sister of charity of that war, and the source counts her among the founders of modern nursing, working in parallel with Florence Nightingale. Nicholas I gave her the Order of St. Vladimir with a gold medal and a reward of 1500 silver rubles. She married in 1855, later worked in a hospital, and died in Shelanga near her home village. Asteroid 3321 Dasha is named for her.
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was a Russian nurse during the siege of Sevastopol
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(November 1836-1892)
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She died in Shelanga, near her home village, in 1892.
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was a Russian nurse during the siege of Sevastopol
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Vladimir with a gold medal "for diligence". She was the only non-noble Russian woman to receive this award.
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She became one of the founders of modern nursing
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