Ivan Logginowitsch Medvednikov

Ivan Logginowitsch Medvednikov

Ivan Logginowitsch Medwednikow ( Russian Иван Логгинович Медведников ; born October 28 ^{. Jul} / 9. November  1807 ^greg. In Irkutsk ; † August 20 ^jul. / 1. September  1889 ^greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian businessman and patron .

Life

Medvednikov's parents were the old-believing irkutsk merchant Loggin Fyodorowitsch Medvednikov and his wife Yelisaveta Medvednikova. The ancestors were Don Cossacks and the development of Siberia (Irkutsk with foundation) and Alaska involved. Medvednikov's wife Alexandra Xenofontovna Medvednikova, born Sibiryakova , came from a family of entrepreneurs and patrons.

Medvednikov made a great fortune in the fur trade , for which he practically dominated the market in Yakutia . In addition, he took part in gold mining in Siberia and in trading with China . From an early age he devoted himself to charity. As a merchant, he was appointed to the 1st Guild of Commerce Council (corresponding to the eighth class in civil service), so that, according to the manifesto of 1832, he received hereditary honorary citizenship .

In 1832, Medvednikov and his brother Loggin Logginowitsch turned to Irkutsk civil governor Ivan Bogdanowitsch Zeidler , in accordance with the wishes of their late mother Yelisaveta Medvednikova, with a request for support for the construction of an orphanage with a school for girls. The maintenance of the orphanage should be financed by the income of the private bank to be founded by them . For this, the brothers donated 70,000 rubles , and 10,000 rubles came from other donors. Zeidler presented this request to the West Siberian Governor General Nikolai Semjonowitsch Sulima , who passed it on to Interior Minister Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Bludow in St. Petersburg in 1834 . Bludow presented the project to the governing senate , which sent its approval vote to Emperor Nicholas I for approval. In June 1836 Nicholas I approved the project with his ukase with the instruction to submit all documents to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna for examination, who then took over the patronage of the orphanage and the bank. The final decree was published in November 1836. The orphanage was built, for which 20,000 rubles of the donated funds were used for the construction of the building. The rest was used to set up the bank. The bank opened in May 1837. Ivan Medvednikov became an honorary citizen of Irkutsk in 1887 and was elected mayor of Irkutsk for four years.

Medvednikov Hospital, 27 Leninsky Prospect, Moscow

In the 1850s Medwednikow left with his wife in Moscow down. They continued their charity work and built churches, hospitals, and high schools. They helped poor students and high school students. They were presented twice to the Empress personally and twice received the blessing of the Holy Synod .

Ivan Medvednikov was buried in Moscow's Andronikov Monastery .

After the death of the widow Alexandra Medvednikova in 1899, in 1900 the city of Moscow received more than five million rubles for the preservation of churches, monasteries, hospitals, military hospitals and high schools according to the wills of Ivan Medvednikov and Alexandra Medvednikova . The Medvednikov Gymnasium, a home for mentally ill children and epileptics , the Medvednikov Hospital for the terminally ill with a poor house and a military hospital were built with it. 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.

Honors

• Gold medal on the Anna ribbon
• Gold medal on the Andreev ribbon
• Order of Saint Anne III class
• Order of St. Vladimir IV Class
• Order of Saint Stanislaus II class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Энциклопедия "Всемирная история": МЕДВЕДНИКОВ ИВАН ЛОГГИНОВИЧ (accessed August 20, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Медведниковы - иркутские меценаты (accessed August 20, 2020).
3. ↑ Об учреждении в Иркутске сиропитательного заведения и частного при нем банка . In: Полное собрание законов Российской империи. Собрание второе. Т. XI. Отделение первое. 1836, № 9332 . Типография II отделения Собственной Его Императорского Величества канцелярии, St. Petersburg 1837, p. 739-752 ( [1] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
4. ↑ Медведников, Иван Логинович . In: Московский некрополь. Т. 2 (К – П) . Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, St. Petersburg 1908, p. 243 ( [2] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
5. ↑ Sigurd Ottowitsch Schmidt (Ed.): Москва: Энциклопедия . Большая российская энциклопедия, Moscow 1997, p. 469 .