CLERKS OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRIKAZ IN CIVIL SERVICE
The article is devoted to the initial period of the Russian medical intelligentsia formation. In the XVI-XVII centuries foreign physicians were invited to provide medical care for the royal family and the army: there were no qualified physicians in Russia. National personnel training began in the second half of the XVII century. By the materials of the Pharmaceutical Prikaz - the medical administrative body - the author examines the legal, social and economic status of medical officials, basically foreign specialists, who had high ranks in medical hierarchy.