[M.N. Nikiforov and the Moscow school of pathologists (on the 125th anniversary of his birth)].

The paper is devoted to the well-known Russian pathologist M. N. Nikiforov (1858-1915), the chief of the chair of pathology in the Moscow University (1857-1915). M. N. Nikiforov was a scientist who created a school of pathologists; he was the author of the first fundamental textbook of pathology in Russian, the founder of the Moscow scientific society of pathologists.