Background
Nadezhda was born in Panino village, Nizhny Novgorod guberniya. Her father was the Sheremetevs"s serf, but was able to succeed as a merchant and manufacturer.
Nadezhda was born in Panino village, Nizhny Novgorod guberniya. Her father was the Sheremetevs"s serf, but was able to succeed as a merchant and manufacturer.
South.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy. University of Zurich.
She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts. At home they had a governess, and a dancing teacher. Later she entered Penichkau Boarding school in Moscow, where she learned several foreign languages.
Like other young people at that time, Nadezhda was fond of reading, enjoyed the works of Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov and befriended revolutionary democrats.
In 1859 the Suslov sisters moved to Saint St. Petersburg. In 1861 her short stories Rasskaz v pismah (Russian: Рассказ в письмах) and Fantazyorka (Russian: Фантазёрка) were published in Sovremennik.
In the 1860s Nadezhda Suslova joined revolutionary organization Land and Liberty. She was allowed by Sechenov and Botkin to attended classes at the Imperial Military Medical Academy.
Her first article Changes in skin sensations under the influence of electrical stimulation was published in Meditsinskiy Vestnik in 1862.
In 1864, after women were officially banned from universities, she moved to Switzerland and graduated from the University of Zurich. Suslova was the first Russian woman to be awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree (1867) as a surgeon/obstetrician.