Alexandra Xenofontovna Medvednikova

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Alexandra Xenofontovna Medvednikova

Alexandra Xenofontowna Medwednikowa born Alexandra Xenofontowna Sibirjakowa , ( Russian Анна Ксенофонтовна Медведникова ; born January 8 . Jul / 20th January  1814 greg. In Irkutsk , † November 11 jul. / 23. November  1899 greg. In Poretsche, Ujesd Zvenigorod ) was a Russian patroness .

Life

Medvednikova came from a Siberian entrepreneurial family . Her father Xenofont Michailowitsch Sibirjakow (1772-1825) was an important merchant of the 1st guild in Irkutsk and ran the family business. The head of the family was her mother Natalja Dmitrijewna Sibirjakowa (1786–1834 / 35), who confidently ran the family business after her husband's death. In addition to the sons and daughters, there was the Kalmuck boy Rispand (approx. 1790–1868), whom Xenofont Sibirjakow had bought at the Irbit fair and who had taken in as his son Alexander after his baptism .

In 1829 Alexandra Sibiryakova married the merchant of the 1st guild and benefactor Ivan Logginowitsch Medvednikow . In the 1850s, the Medvednikovs settled in Moscow and devoted themselves to charity. They were presented twice to the Empress personally and twice received the blessing of the Holy Synod . In 1870 they bought the Poretsche estate in Ujesd Zvenigorod.

Mednikowa remained childless and had no heirs, so that after the death of her husband in 1889 she devoted all of her fortune to charity. In 1896 she commissioned the architect Ivan Sergejewitsch Kuznetsov to build a church in Poretsche, which was completed in 1900 and, like many churches in the Soviet Union, demolished in the 1930s . The main building of the Poretsche estate with orangery and park was preserved and is now a sanatorium of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

In 1898 Medvednikova donated 100,000 rubles for the poor of the Christian faith living in Irkutsk and 500,000 rubles for the construction of an Ivan Medvednikov hospital for the terminally ill in Irkutsk. The hospital with church in the irkutsk suburb of Glaskowo was completed in 1901 and is now the Angara sanatorium . By decision of the city duma Irkutsk in 1898 Medvednikova became the first honorary citizen of the city of Irkutsk.

After Medvednikova's death in 1899, the city of Moscow received more than five million rubles for charity in accordance with the wills of Ivan Medvednikov and Alexandra Medvednikov. The Moscow I. and A. Medvednikov high school for boys, a home for mentally ill children and epileptics , the A. and I. Medvednikov hospital for the terminally ill with an almshouse and church (now the central clinic of the Moscow Patriarchate ) and the Medvednikov hospital, which opened in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War , with churches consecrated in 1916. More than two million rubles were used to help the poor in Irkutsk and Moscow, to support churches, monasteries and hospitals, and for scholarships for students and high school students.

  • Ivan Medvednikov Hospital, Glaskovo, Irkutsk

  • Church of the Central Clinic of the Moscow Patriarchate

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Гаврилова Н.И. / GavrilovaN.I .: Александра Ксенофонтовна Медведникова: материалы к биографии (к вопросу изучения динамики моделей благотворительной деятельности женщин купеческого сословия XIX - начала ХХ в.) / Alexandra Ksenofontovna Medvednikova: Materials for the Biography (On the Issue of Studying Dynamics of Patterns of Charitable activity of Merchant Class Women in the 19th - early 20th century) . In: Исторический курьер / HistoricalCourier . tape 5 , no. 3 , 2019, doi : 10.31518 / 2618-9100-2019-3-3 .
  2. ↑ a b Гимназия Медведниковых . In: Сибирская жизнь . No. 225 , 1901, pp. 3 ( Сибирская жизнь. 1901. №225 [accessed August 21, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Федотова Н .: Медведниковы - иркутские меценаты //. 2012. № 11. 21 марта . In: Копейка . No. March 11 , 2012 ( [1] [accessed August 21, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b Чижков А. Б .: Подмосковные усадьбы сегодня: Путеводитель с картой-схемой . АИРО-ХХ, Moscow 2000, p. 116 .
  5. ↑ Хроника Сибири . In: Сибирская жизнь . No. 41 , 1898, pp. 2 ( Сибирская жизнь. 1898. №041 [accessed August 21, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Иркутск. Домовая церковь Иверской иконы Божией Матери при бывшей Медведниковской больнице (accessed August 21, 2020).
  7. ↑ Почетный гражданин города Иркутска (accessed August 21, 2020).
  8. ↑ Sigurd Ottowitsch Schmidt (Ed.): Москва: Энциклопедия . Большая российская энциклопедия, Moscow 1997, p. 469, 883 .
personal data
SURNAME Medvednikova, Alexandra Xenofontovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibiryakova, Alexandra Xenofontovna (name at birth); Медведникова, Александра Ксенофонтовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian patroness
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Irkutsk
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1899
Place of death Poretsche, Ujesd Zvenigorod