So, rumors began to spread that Rosenthal Sr., in some cases, managed to revive the dead... You ask, where could such nonsense come from?
For one thing, it could have been a fabrication. This option, too, cannot be ruled out, but I still think that there is no smoke without fire... the Reasons could be quite specific.
- First of all, it seems that Rosenthal Sr. did try to do something like this... and for all his unsociability, either he himself or someone at home could accidentally give rise to gossip. In addition, it should be mentioned that Rosenthal from time to time appeared assistants from St. Petersburg, and sometimes foreigners, who often mysteriously disappeared. It is not excluded, incidentally, that on them he did experiments to attempt resuscitation fresh for two to three minutes of dead bodies. Therefore, apparently, Rosenthal always needed new assistants…
So, someone who escaped in time could blab about the nature of Rosenthal's research, and the imagination of the narrators brought the Prince's experiments to a successful end.
By the way, it is possible that Rosenthal Sr. did have some medical success. In St. Petersburg around this time, came several anonymous works on this subject... you're good at it but I think they do reveal something new in the field of intensive care. If they had been published under the name of Rosenthal, they would hardly have been successful.
But not the crux of the... with this the second option explanations rumors, krutivshikhsya around lost in a deep the forest homes Rosenthal's, connected and another opportunity.
Among the bodies brought to the Prince for anatomical experiments, it could be a living person in a state of lethargy. Returning alive from prozektorskoy Rosenthal, he could bring until heart attack entire its village and put an the beginning of macabre gossip.Incidentally, in favor of this version of reveal some facts from biography his son. It is a pity only that direct proofs didn't remain.
Or maybe it was even simpler. Rosenthal, although he was said to be a hopeless practitioner, could mistakenly cure in his house a patient in whose recovery no one believed ... against the background of numerous one-way trips to the estate, such a case could alert and give rise to bad suspicions.
In a nutshell, this was Alexander Genrikhovich Rosenthal... it is not Difficult to imagine the conditions in which the psyche of his son Dima was formed.
Until he was eighteen, he lived in his father's corpse-filled house. As I understood from some documents, the not numerous servants consisted of old men, other children there wasn't ... Women too: the wife of the Prince died when the child was no more than three years. The circumstances of her death remain unknown, but there is evidence that relations with her husband shortly before her death deteriorated, and just at this time the Prince was short of materials for the autopsy. He loved it... but never mind. Pay attention should on the, that the nearest village has been then kilometers in twenty from homes of the Prince, which, although and had habit not to pay attention on son, forbade him shifting away from homes. What the exit could find awakening sexuality young Dima? We can only guess about it. The facts are as follows: until the age of eighteen, he lived on the estate, and after the death of his father decided to continue the family tradition and receive medical education.
- There is evidence that in his youth Dmitry hard experienced the failures of his father, and perhaps the desire to bring it to the end influenced the choice of life.
- During the years of experimentation, his father spent almost all of his fortune, and his son with the remaining money could only pay for his studies and live for a while. So, he comes to St. Petersburg and enters the University.
- But a long time to learn it was not necessary. Oddities in behavior young of the Prince almost immediately turned on him attention as fellow students, so and teachers. Student parties were not interested in Rosenthal, he cautiously applied to prostitutes, from which in Petersburg at that time had nowhere to go... Only two or three times he was seen in the company of young homosexuals.
- Rosenthal, it seemed at first, was only interested in studying, although in most subjects his progress was modest, and sometimes it was not at all... But in anatomy he had no equal. Increasingly, he disappeared into the cellars of hospitals equipped with morgues, sometimes stayed there all night. He preferred to work alone. Those who pestered with questions, explained that he wanted to continue his father's experiments... For a while it was taken for granted.
- Homosexual inclinations of the Prince in itself did not do him credit, but when he was in the second year of training was seen in relations with the actors of the anatomical theater, the study had to stop. Rosenthal wasn't too upset about it, because the morgues had stopped letting him in anyway, and that was all he found interesting about being a doctor.