Nikolai Alexandrovich Naidjonow

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Naidjonow

Nikolai Alexandrovich Naidjonow ( Russian Николай Александрович Найдёнов ; born December 7, jul. / 19th December  1834 greg. In Moscow , † November 27 jul. / 10. December  1905 greg. ) Was a Russian entrepreneur , banker , patron and local historian .

Life

Naidjonow belonged to the third generation of the Naidjonow family from old Moscow. His father Alexander Yegorovich Naidjonow and his grandfather Yegor Ivanovich Naidjonow were Moscow textile entrepreneurs . Naidjonow attended the Peter and Paul School for boys at the Lutheran St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Moscow from 1844 to 1848.

After his father's death in 1864, Naidjonow ran the trading company A. Naidjonow and Sons . In 1866 Naidyonov became a member of the trade class in the Moscow City Duma and remained so until his death. In 1871 he founded the Moscow commercial bank together with PM Ryabuschinski and VI Jakuntschikow , which he managed until his death. In 1876 he was elected to the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee, in which he held the chair until his death. In 1877, on Naidjonov's initiative, the Moscow City Duma decided on a basic historical description of the city of Moscow and elected Naidjonov as President of the Commission for the realization of this description, the author of which was the historian I. J. Sabelin . Naidyonov took a large part in this work and published at his own expense a number of unique books on Moscow history that became classics. He had Moscow's churches and monasteries photographed to scale , so that 14 albums with 680 photographs were released, including Naidjonov's four-volume work Moscow - Cathedrals, Monasteries and Churches . He also financed the nine-volume edition of the materials of the Moscow merchants (1883-1889).

In 1892 Naidjonows Bank took over the majority stake in the Kupavna cloth factory cooperative of the Babkin brothers. The bank then primarily financed the family's businesses, such as the Moscow Trade-Industry Cooperative, which supplied Central Asian cotton . 1902 founded Naidjonow the Moscow- Caucasus - petroleum industry -Genossenschaft in Baku , at the top of his son Alexander Nikolayevich Naidjonow and petroleum big businessmen PO Gukassow stood.

A number of commercial and other schools were established on Naidjonov's initiative. He developed projects for economic reforms and government decisions together with Finance Minister SJ Witte . He formulated principles and tasks of the merchant class. He received the Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus I Class and the Order of the White Eagle . In 1901 he publicly refused to be raised to the hereditary nobility on the grounds that he was born a merchant and would die as a merchant.

Naidjonov was buried in the Pokrovsky monastery cemetery. The inheritance came to his son Alexander Nikolayevich Naidjonow. The writer Alexei Michailowitsch Remisow was Naidjonow's nephew.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Naidjonow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Найденов Н. А .: Воспоминания о виденном, слышанном и испытанном . ТОНЧУ, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-91215-017-3 .
  2. Честное купеческое слово Найденовых (accessed May 31, 2017).
  3. ПП Найденов Александр Николаевич (accessed May 31, 2017).
  4. Бакланова Е. А. (Москва): А. Н. Найденов: "Банкир при любых условиях должен сберечь свою репутацию" (accessed May 31, 2017).
  5. a b Найденов Н.А .: Москва. Соборы, монастыри и церкви (accessed May 31, 2017) . Moscow 1883.
  6. Найдёнов, Н. А .: Воспоминания о Московском Петропавловском евангелическо-лютеранском мужском училище . Moscow 1903.