Non-dermatological interests of well-known dermatologists

In the turmoil of everyday life, in a series of events determined by the struggle between the concepts of «want» and «should», we look forward to the moment when there will be an opportunity to take up our favorite business. And it is inspiring because a hobby is something we do purely for pleasure.It is difficult to imagine a person who does not have any hobbies. In our historical research, we focused on interests, hobbies and preferences that go beyond the main work of more than one hundred well-known dermatologists, venereologists and some other specialists associated with dermatovenereology. For the most adventurous of them, such hobbies became an integral part of life, a key to the complex labyrinths of their spiritual world, a mirror of their worldview, a tuning fork of their morality.The names of most of the people mentioned in the article are inscribed in golden letters in the history of medicine and dermatovenerology in particular. They made many scientific discoveries, their brilliant clinical experience helped to heal and alleviate the suffering of a huge number of patients, they are talented teachers who generously shared their knowledge with their students. At the same time, most of them had high civic qualities.We have tried to reveal little-known pages of the lives of our esteemed colleagues. We modestly peeked behind the scenes to better see and appreciate what was happening on the main stage.So, the presented material is about our outstanding colleagues and their hobbies, banal, remarkable and diverse: love for painting, music, literature; collecting; passion for sports and other options for active pastime; extraordinary, exotic preferences and other things that can hardly be considered as hobbies which for some of our colleagues became perhaps more important than the medical vocation.