Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev

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Ivan Lasarewitsch Lasarew ( Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder 1790)

Ivan Lazarev Lasarewitsch ( Russian Иван Лазаревич Лазарев ; born November 23 . Jul / 4. December  1735 greg. As Hovhannes Agasari Lasarjan ( Armenian Հովհաննես Աղազարի Լազարյան ) in Isfahan - Julfa , † October 24 jul. / 5. November  1801 greg. in St. Petersburg ) was an Armenian - Russian jeweler and patron .

Life

Ivan Lasarev's father Lasar (Agasar) Nazarowitsch Lasarjan immigrated from Isfahan-Julfa to Russia and traded there in many things, especially precious stones . Ivan Lazarev went from Moscow as a merchant to St. Petersburg , where he rose quickly. He met GA Potjomkin and AA Besborodko , with whose help he obtained loans from the state treasury for his trading ventures. As a jeweler he made a great fortune. In 1764 he became court jeweler.

In 1773, Lasarev bought the later so-called Orlov diamond from his aunt's husband, the Julfa Armenian jeweler Grigori Schafras, who had acquired the diamond in 1768 and stored it in an Amsterdam bank. In the same year Lazarev sold the diamond to Prince Orlov , who gave the diamond to Empress Catherine II . In 1774 Catherine II appointed Lazarev advisor for Eastern affairs and gave the Lazarev family the rank of nobility . In 1780, Lazarev became an adviser to the State Bank of Russia. In 1788 Lazarev received the dignity of count. Lasarew received the title of German count through the ambassador of the Roman-German emperor Count von Cobenzl .

In 1785, Lazarev acquired the abandoned and dilapidated Ropscha country estate near St. Petersburg from Prince Orlov and renovated it. A paper factory was founded with Georg Friedrich Veldten . In 1801 Lasarev sold the country estate of Emperor Paul I. Lazarev also owned the Frjanowo estate near Moscow.

With 830,000 dessiatins of land, Lazarev was one of the largest landowners in Russia. From the Stroganovs he bought iron and copper works in the Urals in Perm Governorate , with which he became an important iron and copper supplier . During the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1791) Lazarev advised the commanding General-Field Marshal Potjomkin politically. After the Peace of Iassy , Lazarev helped settle Armenians in the previously Turkish areas. Tens of thousands of Armenians were settled, schools were built, and the cities of Grigoriopol and Nakhichevan-on-Don were founded. Together with the prince and Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church Howsep Arghutjan he participated in the building of an Armenian state under the auspices of Russia. They developed a project to settle Armenians in the North Caucasus and Crimea , which was soon approved by the government.

Lazarev donated a large part of his fortune to a school for poor Armenian children, the future Lazarev Institute for Oriental Languages . In his will, he pledged his brother and heir Joachim (Jekim), with 200,000 Assignat - rubles to build an appropriate building. Lazarev received permission to open an Armenian church, so he and his brothers had St. Catherine's Church built on St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect No. 40 at their own expense . He also built the Armenian Holy Cross Church in Moscow. During his last years he generously supported Armenian charities, monasteries and societies in Astrakhan , Nakhchivan-on-Don, Grigoriopol, Mozdok , Kislyar , Tbilisi and other cities.

Lasarew was married to Ekaterina Mirzakhanova (1750-1819). His only son Artemi (1768–1791) was the adjutant of Prince Potjomkin. Lasarev's epitaph was transferred from the Church of the Resurrection to the Smolensk Armenian Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bournoutian, George A .: Armenians and Russia, 1626–1796: a documentary record . Mazda Publ., Costa Mesa, California 2001, ISBN 978-1-56859-132-2 , pp. 249 .
  2. ↑ Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Лазарев, Иван Лазаревич (accessed May 11, 2017).
  3. ↑ Article Lasarew, Ivan Lasarewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D037448~2a%3DLasarew%2C%20Iwan%20Lasarewitsch~2b%3DLasarew%2C%20Iwan%20Lasarewitsch
  4. ↑ a b Гельбиг Г. фон: Русские избранники (accessed May 10, 2017) . Moscow 1999.
  5. ↑ Запарий В. В .: Чёрная металлургия Урала. Х VIII– ХХ века . Yekaterinburg 2001, p. 56 .
personal data
SURNAME Lazarev, Ivan Lazarewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasarjan, Howhannes Agasari; Лазарев, Иван Лазаревич (Russian); Հովհաննես Աղազարի Լազարյան (hyS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Russian jeweler and patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Isfahan - Julfa
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1801
Place of death St. Petersburg