The article is dedicated to N. N. Bazhenov, a Russian psychiatrist and public figure. Together with S. S. Korsakov, he was the first to introduce a system of uninhibited treatment of the mentally ill in the Sokolniki Psychiatric Hospital. He was the first in Russia to implement a system of family psychiatric patronage in the Ryazan psychiatric hospital. He advocated the decentralisation of psychiatric care, organising it on a territorial basis. With his participation he built psychiatric hospitals in Ryazan, Vinnitsa, Vonezh and Moscow. He was one of the organizers of the Medical Faculty and Psychiatry Department at Moscow Higher Women's Courses. His scientific works are devoted to the organization of psychiatric care, legislation on the mentally ill, psychotherapy, history of psychiatry, cyclothymia, schizophrenia, pathography, etc. First chairman of the Russian Union of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists. He was also known for his social activities: he was a chairman of the Moscow literary and social circle, one of the organisers of Russian Masonry in the early 20th century. During the First World War he organized medical assistance to the soldiers of the Russian expeditionary corps in France.

N. N. Bazhenov, organisation of psychiatric care, history of psychiatry, system of non-restraint on the mentally ill, Freemasonry in Russia.