Alexander Grigoryevich Demidov

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Alexander Grigoryevich Demidov

Alexander Grigorievich Demidov ( Russian Александр Григорьевич Демидов ; born July 2 . Jul / 13. July  1737 greg. , † February 20 jul. / 4. March  1803 greg. ) Was a Russian entrepreneur .

Life

Demidow from the Demidow family was the eldest son Grigori Akinfijewitsch Demidows and grandson Akinfi Nikititsch Demidows . Together with his brothers Pawel and Pjotr , he became a student at the University of Göttingen in 1751 . The brothers had to write weekly reports to their father. The stay in Göttingen marked the beginning of the brothers' ten-year Grand Tour . With his knowledge of foreign languages, Demidow worked as a translator. He translated the German speech in the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Göttingen to commemorate the happy birth of Grand Duke Pawel Petrovich .

Demidov House, Taizy, Gatchinsky rajon
Praskowja Matwejewna Demidowa

In September 1761 the brothers returned to Russia . The father died two months later. The three brothers inherited 4 copper works , 3 iron works , a salt works , a tannery , 10 houses in different cities and 9500 serf farmers and workers in the Urals . That year Demidow acquired the Taizy farm in what is now the Gatchinsky rajon , which Peter the Great had originally given to Admiral Ivan Mikhailovich Golovin . Demidow had a mansion built there by Ivan Yegorowitsch Starow , who married Natalja Grigoryevna Demidova. In January 1765 Demidow married Praskowja Matvejewna Olssufjewa (1730-1813). In the marriage two daughters and two sons were born.

In 1765 the three brothers agreed on an economically sensible, even distribution of the inheritance. Since Pavel Demidov was not interested in entrepreneurship, he sold his part to his brothers in 1767. Alexander Demidow was a successful entrepreneur. He modernized and expanded his businesses, established new ones and steadily increased his land and forest holdings. Demidow was a State Councilor (5th class ) and participated in the work of the Commission for the systematization of legislation from 1767–1769. In 1774 he and his brothers became advisors to the Mining Commission with Ukas Katharina II . During the Pugachev uprising , the brothers' works were looted and destroyed. In January 1774 a troop of Salawat Yulayevs occupied the Suksunski plant and caused 100,000 rubles in damage .

Demidov owned a number of houses on a street leading to Moika in St. Petersburg . In 1778 he built a plot of land between Moika and the Katharinenkanal . The street thus formed was named Demidow-Pereulok in 1796. In 1798 Demidow became master of the village of Petrowskoje , in which he had a new stone church built at his own expense. The construction was completed in 1805 by his son Grigori.

Demidov, like his wife, was buried in St. Petersburg in the Lazarus Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Демидовы . In: Большая российская энциклопедия . tape 8 , 2007, ISBN 978-5-85270-338-5 , pp. 496 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Династия Демидовых.Часть 12. Александр Григорьевич Демидов (accessed September 26, 2018).
  3. ↑ Alexander Demidov: Перевод речи в память всерадостнейшаго рождения его императорскаго высочества благовернаго государя великаго князя Павла Петровича , говоренной на немецком языке, в Геттингском университете в большой аудитории, Александром Демидовым . St. Petersburg 1755.
  4. ↑ Наша Таицкая земля (accessed September 25, 2018).
  5. ↑ Демидовы: древо рода (фрагмент) (accessed September 26, 2018).
  6. ↑ Демидовский временник. Исторический альманах. Кн. II . Yekaterinburg 2008, p. 241-243 .
  7. ↑ переулок Гривцова (accessed September 25, 2018).
  8. ↑ Некрополь Свято-Троицкой Александро-Невской Лавры: Демидов Александр Григорьевич (accessed September 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Demidow, Alexander Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Демидов, Александр Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1737
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1803