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Updated: June 6, 2025
Pirogoff has not the slightest doubt of his own genius, nay, of his SUPERIORITY of genius, so certain is he of it that he never questions it. How many Pirogoffs have there not been among our writers scholars, propagandists? I say "have been," but indeed there are plenty of them at this very day.
The "impudence of ignorance," if I may use the expression, is developed to a wonderful extent in such cases; unlikely as it appears, it is met with at every turn. This confidence of a stupid man in his own talents has been wonderfully depicted by Gogol in the amazing character of Pirogoff.
Well, I can assure you it was entirely on my account that Pirogoff telegraphed to Paris, and left Sebastopol at the greatest risk during the siege. Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds. The government knows all about it.
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