The Anglo-Russian Hospital was a hospital in

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set up during the

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. It was called 'The (British) Empire's Gift to Our Russian Allies' and was founded in 1915 and was closed in 1918.

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and Lady Sybil Grey helped raise the funds to keep the hospital, located in what is now the

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, running and set up several

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s along the Eastern Front. Pioneering

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served here for about 18 months between 1916-1918. The hospital was visited by Tsarina Alexandra and her daughters, and

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is reported to have had to have a fish bone removed from his throat here a few hours after the murder on

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. The hospital closed not long after the

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and the staff were evacuated to

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