• European neurology · Jan 2011

    Biography Historical Article

    VladimirMikhailovic Bekhterev (1857-1927): strange circumstances surrounding the death of the great Russian neurologist.

    • Jürg Kesselring.
    • Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Rehabilitation Centre, Valens, Switzerland. kesselring.klival@spin.ch
    • Eur. Neurol. 2011 Jan 1;66(1):14-7.

    AbstractThe famous Russian neurologist Vladimir Mikhailovic Bekhterev (1857-1927) was ordered to examine Josef Stalin in December 1927 during the First All-Russian Neurological Congress in Moscow. Returning to the Congress after his consultation he told some colleagues that he had 'examined a paranoiac with a dry, small hand'. The next day, Bekhterev died and only his brain was examined postmortem, the body being cremated the same day.Copyright © 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel.

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