Department of History of Medicine, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland; Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Foundation for Ophthalmology Development, Poznan, Poland.
Clin Dermatol. 2020 Sep-Oct;38(5):598-603. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2019.09.002. Epub 2019 Sep 12.
Shortly after syphilis appeared in Europe at the time of Columbus' voyage to the New World, the big pox, as it was often known, became a serious issue in Russia for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Members of the Russian royal family were made aware of the disease from adolescence onward. Czar Peter the Great had many sexual contacts and could have contracted any number of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that were quite common in his era. Nevertheless, contributions analyzed from available sources by his contemporary doctors, and later from medical analyses, reveal no evidence that he had contracted syphilis or any other STD. Most likely, he died from acute renal failure due to urinary tract obstruction.
梅毒在哥伦布航海至新大陆时期出现在欧洲后不久，这种通常被称为“大痘”的疾病在俄罗斯成为了一个严重的诊断、治疗和预防问题。俄罗斯皇室成员从青春期开始就意识到这种疾病。沙皇彼得大帝有很多性伴侣，可能感染了他那个时代很常见的许多性传播疾病（STDs）。然而，他当代医生根据现有资料进行的分析，以及后来的医学分析，都没有发现他患有梅毒或任何其他性传播疾病的证据。最有可能的是，他死于尿路梗阻引起的急性肾功能衰竭。
