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Izvestnaya pronitsatelnostyu i ostrym umom, Ekaterina II zhivo interesovalas filosofiey, meditsinoy i estestvennymi naukami, vela mnogoletnyuyu perepisku s Didro i Volterom i priglasila ko dvoru nemalo vydayuschihsya uchenyh svoego vremeni. Sredi nih byl i opytnyy angliyskiy vrach Tomas Dimsdeyl, kotoryy v 1768 g. priehal iz Londona, chtoby v obstanovke strozhayshey tayny privit ot ospy velikogo knyazya Pavla Petrovicha i (pervoy iz evropeyskih monarhov) samu Ekaterinu. V XVIII v. «pyatnistoe chudovische», smertonosnyy virus ospy, opustoshalo Evropu, i imperatritsa horosho ponimala ugrozu, kotoruyu epidemiya nesla Rossii. Pervaya massovaya kampaniya po ospoprivivaniyu v Rossii, s uspehom provedennaya Dimsdeylom, zalozhila osnovu dlya sovremennyh praktik vaktsinatsii. O tom, kak voznik i byl realizovan taynyy plan angliyskogo vracha i russkoy imperatritsy, uvlekatelno i dostoverno rasskazyvaetsya v etoy audioknige.