In the mid-19th century, postal services of many countries began to acquire special scales for weighing letters. Such scales were first mentioned in Europe in 1840. Letter scales also came into use in Russia. Manufacturers often attached information sheets to their products indicating postage rates.
Because of the impressive variety of unique models, Vyatka citizens soon became fascinated with letter scales. For convenience, letters were weighed at home using small scales.
The letter scale from the “Medicine” section indicates that Vyatka doctors actively corresponded with their colleagues from all over the world, magazines, and patients. After all, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a doctor was not merely a physician, but also a distributor of innovative ideas and methods of treatment. In their letters, doctors discussed medical news and described notable cases of recovery after severe illnesses. Interested in scientific research, doctors maintained daily correspondence with many addressees and, in order to save money, they weighed each letter at home before sending it.
One of such physicians and enlighteners was Savvaty Ivanovich Sychugov — a zemsky doctor of the Vyatka Governorate, a writer, a medical historian, a philanthropist, and the founder of the first public library in the village of Verkhovino. The Yuryansk Central District Library was named after Savvaty Sychugov.
Savvaty Sychugov was born into a family of a priest in the village of Podrelye, Vyatka Governorate, in 1841. He graduated from the Vyatka Theological Seminary. While studying at the Medical School of Moscow University, he worked as a mover, because he had no other means of earning his living. Despite all the difficulties, in 1868, he graduated. Savvaty Sychugov was deeply concerned with the problem of the sanitary education of peasants. To contribute to solving the problem, he wrote popular books, such as the pamphlet “On Cholera and How to Prevent It”. The teacher and writer F.F. Nemidov said about Sychugov,
Because of the impressive variety of unique models, Vyatka citizens soon became fascinated with letter scales. For convenience, letters were weighed at home using small scales.
The letter scale from the “Medicine” section indicates that Vyatka doctors actively corresponded with their colleagues from all over the world, magazines, and patients. After all, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a doctor was not merely a physician, but also a distributor of innovative ideas and methods of treatment. In their letters, doctors discussed medical news and described notable cases of recovery after severe illnesses. Interested in scientific research, doctors maintained daily correspondence with many addressees and, in order to save money, they weighed each letter at home before sending it.
One of such physicians and enlighteners was Savvaty Ivanovich Sychugov — a zemsky doctor of the Vyatka Governorate, a writer, a medical historian, a philanthropist, and the founder of the first public library in the village of Verkhovino. The Yuryansk Central District Library was named after Savvaty Sychugov.
Savvaty Sychugov was born into a family of a priest in the village of Podrelye, Vyatka Governorate, in 1841. He graduated from the Vyatka Theological Seminary. While studying at the Medical School of Moscow University, he worked as a mover, because he had no other means of earning his living. Despite all the difficulties, in 1868, he graduated. Savvaty Sychugov was deeply concerned with the problem of the sanitary education of peasants. To contribute to solving the problem, he wrote popular books, such as the pamphlet “On Cholera and How to Prevent It”. The teacher and writer F.F. Nemidov said about Sychugov,
