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Bluffer’s Guide RUSSIA, 15-17 September 1771

The Moscow Plague Uprising

Timeline

DECEMBER 1770 FEBRUARY 1771 31 MARCH 1771 20 AUGUST 1771

Dr AF Shafonskiy, chief An outbreak of Catherine II sends The rising death
physician at the plague among doctors, troops toll convinces
Moscow General cloth mill workers and a senator in Catherine to enact
Hospital, identiies spreads the disease an efort to ight an emergency
a case of bubonic throughout the the plague. They programme,
plague. However, city, forcing doctors set up hospitals isolating Moscow
the head of the city’s to acknowledge the and carry out so that nobody can
public health ignores him. dangerous contagion. medical inspections. enter or leave.
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