Nikolsky, pyotr vasilievich

(¤ 1858, † 1940) Pyotr Vasilyevich Nikolsky was born on September 1, 1858, in Usman, in the Russian province of Tambov. In 1877 he began studying medicine at Moscow University and after one year transferred to St. Vladimir University in Kiev. He worked as an assistant physician in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology from 1884. His teacher was the Hebra student Mikhail Stukovenkov. 1895 Doctorate on pemphigus foliaceus. 1897 Habilitation. 1899 Head of the Dermatological Clinic in Warsaw. With the beginning of World War I, the entire university was evacuated to Rostov/Don. There Nikolskij founded a new Dermatological Department in 1915. Nikolskij published the first dermatological textbook in the USSR and published extensively on the history of dermatology in Russia. Research Area(s): Nikolski phenomenon (in clinically unaffected skin, the upper epidermis can be displaced on the lower; typical in pemphigus); pseudo-Nikolski phenomenon (displaceability of a blister without bursting; nonspecific phenomenon in bullous dermatoses). First describer of the diagnostically important Nikolski phenomenon I and II in blistering diseases.

1. Nikolskiy PV (1896) materials for the study of pemphigus foliaceus Cazenavi. Dissertation
2. Nikolskiy PV (1922) Instability of the stratum corneum in relation to mechanical influences. Medicinskaya Mysi 2: 65-71