Google Doodle celebrates Vera Gedroits' 151st birthday - she was Russia's first-ever female military surgeon

 Princess Vera Ignatievna Gedroits was a Russian doctor of medicine and author. She was the first woman military surgeon in Russia, the first woman professor of surgery, and the first woman to serve as a physician in the Imperial Palace of Russia.

Princess Vera Gedroits
Вера Гедройц
Vera Gedroits with patients circa 1915
Born	Vera Ignatievna Gedroits 19 April 1870 Slobodishche, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	March 1932 (aged 61) Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Other names	Vera Gedroyts, Vera Gedroitz, Vera Gedröitz, Vera Giedroyć, Vyera Ignat'yevna Gyedroycz
Occupation	Physician poet
Years active	1900–1932
Writing career
Pen name	Sergei Gedroits