Mikhail Dmitrievich Butin

Mikhail Dmitrievich Butin (1906)

Michail Dmitrijewitsch Butin ( Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Бутин ; * 23 October ^July / 4 November  1835 ^greg. In Nerchinsk ; † 7 April ^July / 20 April  1907 ^greg. Ibid) was a Russian merchant of the 1st guild , entrepreneur and patrons .

Life

Butin attended the Nertschinsk district school and then worked as an employee of the Nertschinsk entrepreneurial family Kandinski. He trained himself and traveled in Russia , Western Europe and America .

In 1866, Butin and his brother Nikolai founded the trading company of the Butin brothers . The company owned a steel mill , a salt works , 3 distilleries and about 50 gold fields in the Transbaikalia , Amur and Primorsky Oblasts . The Butins traded successfully in bread and manufactured goods . They organized the search for new deposits , built mines and introduced new methods for prospecting and mining gold.

In the 1860s, Butin built a palace in the Moorish-Gothic style in Nerchinsk, which filled an entire district and where he lived with his family. This included a park with grottos , pavilions , sculptures , a greenhouse and various farm buildings. The palace housed a museum and library with works in 4 languages, maps , marble sculptures and porcelain, as well as a ballroom with mirrors from the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 , in which he had participated.

Butin donated money for the opening of a grammar school, a music school, a pharmacy and a printing plant in Nerchinsk. He financed the spiritual school and the construction of the Resurrection Cathedral in Nerchinsk.

In 1870 Butin equipped the Nerchinsk- Tianjin expedition to China at his own expense . He participated in trade proposals for the Russia-China Treaty in 1881.

In the 1880s, the Butin company ran into economic difficulties due to crop failures and droughts that hindered gold panning. Most of Butin's capital was Muscovites , Nizhny Novgorodians and foreign loans . Moscow and Irkutsk merchants to their legal representatives of the Attorney Lev Aleksandrovich Michelson belonged, demanded back their loans, the trading firm established Butin under receivership and sold the major companies charging high management fees, with the participants and Michelson personal enrichment was assumed. The Butin brothers were practically ruined, so that Butin dissolved the company in 1892 after the death of his brother Nikolai.

Butin was from 1881-1884, 1894 and 1898 a member of the Irkutsk city duma . He worked as a writer, scientist and collector. He published a number of articles on the regional economy. His work on Siberia and the courts there before the reforms appeared in St. Petersburg in 1898 and 1900 . He lived in Irkutsk and returned to Nerchinsk before his death.

Honors

• Order of Saint Anne III class
• Order of Saint Stanislaus III. Class, II class
• Gold medal of the Society of Friends of Natural Science , Anthropology and Ethnography
• Large silver medal from the Paris Exposition of 1878
• Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society

Web links

• Literature by and about Michail Dmitrijewitsch Butin in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Петров А. В., Плотникова М. М .: Городские головы, гласные и депутаты Иркутской думы 1872-2011: Биографический справочник . Оттиск, Irkutsk 2011, p. 145–146 ( [1] accessed on March 22, 2019 [PDF]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Enziklopedija Sabaikalja: Бутин М. Д. (accessed on March 22, 2019).
3. ↑ Enziklopedija Sabaikalja: Нерчинско-Тяньцзинская экспедиция (accessed on March 22, 2019).
4. ↑ КАРТОЧКА РЕГИСТРАЦИИ ПЕРСОНАЛИИ в электронном энциклопедическом ресурсе "Известные и знаменитые и знаменитые и знаменитые и знаменитые и знаменитые и знаменитые и знаменитые on March 20, 2019.