Ivan Akimowitsch Malzow

Ivan Akimowitsch Malzow ( Russian Иван Акимович Мальцов ; * 1774 ; † 1853 in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian entrepreneur .

Life

Malzow was the son of the ennobled glass manufacturer and founder of the crystal glass factory in Gus Akim Wassiljewitsch Malzow and his noble wife Marija Wassiljewna Malzowa. After Akim Malzov's death in 1785, his widow bought the Raditsky glass factory and the Karachevsky glass factory near the village of Djatkowo from the widow Alexander Wassiljewitsch Malzows and began to expand production. As befits his standing, Ivan Malzow and his older brother Sergei joined the bodyguard regiment on horseback in 1786 . In 1790 Marija Malzowa built the Djatkowo glass and crystal glass factory near Djatkowo , which was already in production in Gus in 1796.

In 1798 Ivan Malzow left his military service as a secondary major and took over the management of the family business from his mother, who had already involved him in the management. On the advice of his mother, Malzow took part in the new Russian-American company whose aim was to trade with the northwest of the American continent. In 1804 his mother handed over her 10 factories to him. In 1806 he married the Moscow beauty Kapitolina Michailowna nee Vysheslavzewa (1771–1861), divorced wife of the poet Vasily Pushkin (uncle Alexander Pushkin ). They had the children Wassili (1807–1832), Marija (1808–1897) and Sergei (1810–1893). Kapitolina set up a literary salon in her house , which was also attended by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Griboyedov .

In 1809 Malzow built a beet sugar factory in the village of Werchi, 20 versts from Djatkowo. A few years later he built a sugar refinery in Lyubochna, 5 werts from Djatkowo , which processed sugar from all the villages in the area. The sugar was shipped to the south of the country on the Bolwa , Desna and Dnepr rivers . For his services to sugar production, he received the gold medal and honorary membership of the Moscow Agricultural Society.

In 1810, Malzow expanded his business with the Dyatkovo glass and crystal glass factory as the center of his operations and completed the construction of the Dyatkovo church. In Moscow he built a house on Jakimanka and bought another on Sretenka. Capitolina continued to arrange literary meetings. After the death of his brother Sergei, Malzow took over the upbringing of his nephews Ivan Sergejewitsch , who then continued his father's business, and Sergei Sergejewitsch, who became a master of philology and lecturer at the Imperial University of Dorpat and died in France .

1811 sold Malzow the factories in and around Gus his brother Sergei, while maintaining the glass business and bought with the proceeds from the family Demidov two ironworks and - foundries in Lyudinovo and Sukremle in Lyudinovo. Malzow had machines for the glass factories and household appliances for the population manufactured there. In 1821 the Russian government in Transcaucasia introduced preferential tariffs for the import of goods and duty-free transit from Redut-Kale (near Poti ) to Iran . As a result, Malzov began to plan the export of the products of the Dyatkovo factories to Iran, especially since AS Griboyedov introduced him to those familiar with the business situation in Iran.

In 1828 Malzow began to buy the first 30 Dessjatinen land in Simejis in the Crimea in order to set up a winery there. After six months, 85,000 Been vines planted that the basis for the production of Massandra - wines made. The area, which was continuously expanded through acquisitions, was a convenient sales market for the old and new products of the Malzow factories. In Simejis, Malzow opened a shop for iron, glass and equipment for the people of the southern coast of the Crimea.

At the First Russian Manufactory Exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1829 , Emperor Nicholas I praised the quality of the glasses from the Dyatkovo factory, which exceeded the quality of the well-known glassworks by Alexei Ivanovich Bachmetev and Count Orlov . Malzow was awarded a gold medal and received the right to put the government coat of arms on its products. Some of the products on display were bought by the imperial court. He achieved a similar success at the 2nd All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow in 1830 with a gold medal as well as at the following exhibitions in St. Petersburg in 1839, in Moscow in 1843 and in Warsaw in 1845 , for which he received the Order of St. Vladimir IV. In 1837 he bought a two-story stone house with a large garden in St. Petersburg, in which the poet Vasily Zhukovsky , the historian Mikhail Pogodin and other important people were guests.

Malzows son Sergei, who in St. Petersburg in the Chevalier Guards served, participated in various projects and moved his father, ironworks in the production of railway rails switch. In 1839 Malzow bought works for the production of cast iron ovens, kitchen utensils and iron art objects in Pessochnja . In 1853 he switched one factory to faience dishes.

Malzow died of cholera .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gus-Chrustalny : Мальцовы (accessed June 28, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Rodovid: Иван Акимович Мальцов р. 1774 ум. 1853 (accessed July 2, 2017).
3. ↑ Александр Корин: Хрустальный дворец магната-патриота (accessed July 2, 2017).
4. ↑ Елена Григорьевна Жадько: МАЛЬЦОВЫ Некоронованные короли русского хрусталя (accessed July 2, 2017).