Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bugrov ( Russian Николай Александрович Бугров * 1837 in Nizhny Novgorod , † April 16 ^{. Jul} / 29. April  1911 ^greg. ) Was a Russian businessman and patron .

Life

Bugrow came from an old-believing family from the Ujesd Semjonow . His father was the businessman Alexander Petrovich Bugrov . His grandfather was the merchant Pyotr Yegorovich Bugrov , who leased and modernized water mills .

Bugrow was a merchant of the 1st guild and successfully continued the family business he had inherited. He modernized flour production by introducing a roller milling process . In 1892 he had a wooden dacha built in Volodarsk (now the Volodarsk District Museum) based on the project of Pavel Petrovich Malinowski . In 1896 he was given the right to deliver bread for the Imperial Russian Army . For the transport he created a whole fleet of barges and steamers on the Volga . Instead of water wheels , Bugrow's mills were powered by steam engines for grinding grain and pulses . The flour produced was sold directly to the ship piers in Nizhny Novgorod and the villages of Pavlovo , Worsma and Bogorodsk in the Nizhny Novgorod governorate .

Bugrov was the secular leader of the Beglopopowzy Old Believers' community in Nizhny Novgogord. In his hands was the entire production of the Lestowka - prayer chains, which were traditionally believed . From 1879 he was a member of the Nizhny Novgorod city duma . In 1881 he became an honorary citizen of the city. He had business relations with Sergei Juljewitsch Witte and Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonoszew . He was well acquainted with Maxim Gorky , with whom he exchanged letters.

Bugrow spent a lot of time and money on charities and building poor houses , night shelters, and the like. It is believed that during his life he spent 10 million rubles just on alms . He was the main homeowner in Nizhny Novgorod and invested significant funds in urban development . Part of his income was regularly used to maintain the night shelters that his father had built. He completed the construction of the widow house (1883-1887) at the Nizhny Novgorod begun by his father Lyadov Square. He built the building of the Volga Kama Bank in Nizhny Novgorod, the new theater (1896) and financed the construction of the city duma building (1904, Vladimir Petrovich Zeidler's project , since 1919 Palace of Labor, now Oblast Court). At Bugrov's expense, the first central sewer system was built in Nizhny Novgorod , which was only expanded in the early 1990s, and the first aqueduct in 1880 . He used 45% of the annual profit of the family business for the needs of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 45% for business development and the remaining 10% for his own needs and personal charity. He himself lived very simply and modestly.

Maxim Gorky dedicated a biographical essay to him . Stalin said that in the management of the People's Commissariats one had to learn from Bugrow, who was an orderly and an accountant rolled into one.

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  Widow's House, Nizhny Novgorod

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  Volodarsk District Museum

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  Palace of Labor, Nizhny Novgorod

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Знаменитые братчики Нижегородской епархии: Бугров Николай Александрович (accessed September 13, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Большая российская энциклопедия: БУГРО́В Николай Александрович (accessed September 13, 2019).
3. ↑ Достопримечательности города Володарск (Нижегородская область) (accessed September 12, 2019).
4. ↑ Халезова Н .: Щедрые душой. Как одаривали нижегородские меценаты (accessed September 13, 2019).
5. ↑ ШТАТ КУПЦА БУГРОВА (accessed September 13, 2019).