Alexander Bogdanov
Founder of the blood-transfusion institute; died on himself
Timeline - Bogdanov in the record
6 events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Alexander Malinovsky, later 'Bogdanov', is born in Sokółka in the western Russian Empire.
Strikes and mutiny shake the Russian Empire. Bogdanov and the radical intelligentsia are radicalized; the milieu that will later fund utopian biology takes shape.
Bogdanov's utopian novel imagines a communist Mars where citizens routinely exchange blood to stay young, a fantasy he will later try to make science.
After a philosophical break with Lenin, Bogdanov is pushed out of the Bolshevik leadership, by most accounts in 1909. He turns from politics toward biology and 'tectology'.
Bogdanov opens the world's first blood-transfusion institute in Moscow and makes himself its chief experimental subject.
After an exchange transfusion with a student who had an inactive form of tuberculosis, Bogdanov dies of a haemolytic transfusion reaction.
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