Ivan Sergejewitsch Malzow

Ivan Sergejewitsch Malzow ( Russian Иван Сергеевич Мальцов ; * 1807 , † 1880 in Nice ) was a Russian entrepreneur , man of letters , diplomat and patron .

Life

Malzow, son of the noble entrepreneur Sergei Akimowitsch Malzow and his wife Anna Sergejewna, widowed Ladyschenskaya, née Princess Meshcherskaya, attended the noble pension at Moscow University . After the death of his father in 1823 he took over the rich inheritance with many glassworks and the crystal glass factory in Gus in the center and lived with his uncle Ivan Akimowitsch Malzow in Moscow .

To complete his education, Maltsov entered the service of the Moscow Archives of the College for Foreign Affairs as one of the archival boys, as did DW Wenevitinov and Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky , in whose apartment the secret circle of lovers of the philosophy of Slavophiles met. Malzow worked in the newspaper of this group and wrote translations, stories and historical articles. For the new Hermes collection , MP Pogodin and DW Wenewitinow commissioned Malzow to translate Ancillon and Schiller in 1826 . Of great importance was Malzows publication in 1827 of extracts of the translation of the nine-volume Napoleon - Biography of Sir Walter Scott , which has been extremely successful in Western Europe and has been banned in Russia.

In 1827 Malzow was transferred to St. Petersburg and in 1828 was appointed First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tehran , headed by Alexander Griboyedov . When the Russian embassy was stormed in 1829 and the entire staff including the ambassador was killed, Malzow was the only one who managed to escape. He went to the Shah and refuted the false allegations. As the only Russian managing director in Iran , he now served as Consul General in Tabriz . He received the Order of St. Vladimir II Class and in 1830 the Order of St. Anne II Class.

Malzow returned in 1831 and introduced modern production methods to his crystal glass factory in Gus. Already at the 2nd All-Russian Manufactory Exhibition in Moscow in 1831, the Gus crystal glass was awarded a small gold medal. In 1833, the Great Gold Medal of the St. Petersburg Exhibition followed. In 1833 Malzow and his uncle Iwan Akimowitsch Malzow founded the Transcaucasia Society with others , which delivered Malzow crystal glassware to Iran, Central Asia and Transcaucasia.

In 1834 Malzow became chamberlain , in 1835 a member of the General Bureau of the Asia Department and then a member of the Council of the Foreign Ministry. In 1835 he traveled abroad in the wake of Emperor Nikolaus I with Vice Chancellor Karl Robert von Nesselrode , where he also visited a Bohemian glassworks. After his return he had gold ruby ​​glass made in Gus . In 1836 Malzow received permission to build a cotton mill in St. Petersburg, whose shareholders included the poet Vasily Schukowski . 1855–1864 he was three times acting manager of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1856 he entered the of L. Tengoborski led Customs Committee one. During his visits abroad, he was always interested in technical innovations, which he then successfully introduced in his companies. In addition to the Gus crystal glass factory, he owned six glassworks and a stone house in Moscow. He enlarged his land, bought three more glassworks and bought a stone house in St. Petersburg and two wooden houses in Moscow. The elementary school for craftsmen founded in Gus with Malzow's money was converted into a two-class ministry school for boys and girls in 1875. In 1876 he opened a two-class school at the Velikodworski glassworks near Gus. He donated 500,000 rubles to found the technology school in Vladimir . At the beginning of 1880 he equipped his two largest glassworks with steam engines .

Malzow was childless and before his death bequeathed his entire property to his nephew Yuri Stepanowitsch Nechayev-Malzow . Maltsov died in Nice and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. His grave has not been preserved.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Гавлин М. Л .: Мальцевы. In: Российские предприниматели и меценаты . Дрофа, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-7107-7706-4 .
2. ↑ Елена Григорьевна Жадько: МАЛЬЦОВЫ Некоронованные короли русского хрусталя (accessed July 2, 2017).
3. ↑ Мальцовы - титаны русской промышленности ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 3, 2017). 
4. ↑ Gus-Chrustalny : Мальцовы (accessed June 28, 2017).
5. ↑ Laurence Kelly: Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia . 2nd Edition. ISBN 978-1-84511-196-0 , pp. 187-195 .
6. ↑ НОВЫЕ МАТЕРИАЛЫ ОБ УБИЙСТВЕ А. С. ГРИБОЕДОВА (accessed July 3, 2017).