Pavel Mikhailovich Ryabushinsky

Pawel Michailowitsch Rjabuschinski ( Russian Павел Михайлович Рябушинский ; * 1820 in Moscow ; † 1899 ibid) was a Russian entrepreneur and patron .

Life

Rjabuschinski was the second son of the old believing company founder Mikhail Jakowlewitsch Ryabuschinski . Contrary to the rules of the Old Believers, he was enterprising, sociable and loved music. He received his education at home. From the age of 14 he worked in his father's shop and took care of buying textiles . He was several times in England to get to know the textile technology there. In 1859 he became a Moscow merchant of the 2nd guild and then a merchant of the 1st guild.

In 1867 the Ryabushinsky brothers founded a joint trading company. In 1869, Ryabushinsky suggested to his brothers that they sell all of their possessions in order to invest. With the joint proceeds they bought a dilapidated cotton mill in the Tver Governorate near Vyshny Volotschok from the Moscow merchant Shilov for 268,000 rubles , which soon turned into a big profit. A cloth factory was added in 1874 and a cloth dye works in 1875. Ryabushinsky continued to invest, and by the late 19th century his cotton mills in Vyshny Volochok were an integral part of the Russian cotton industry.

Ryabushinsky helped the Old Believers congregation of the Rogozhskoye Cemetery in Moscow. He invested considerable resources in improving the working and living conditions of factory workers. He organized adequate medical assistance and built a hospital and a maternity hospital. Almshouses and day nurseries were maintained at the factory . A school was opened and workers' barracks were built.

Ryabushinsky became a member of the Moscow City Duma (1860) and the Commercial Court (1867). He was a member of the Moscow Stock Exchange (1870–1876) and member of the Assembly of Merchants of the 1st Guild. Rjabuschinski's portrait was painted by Pawel Kainowitsch Dunkers in 1880.

Ryabushinsky was married to Anna Semyonovna Fomina, granddaughter of the head of the Moscow Old Believer congregation at the Rogozhskoye Cemetery, who bore him only six daughters, so he divorced. In his second marriage, at the age of 50, he married the 18-year-old bride of his brother Alexandra Stepanovna Ovssjanikowa from an old-believing family. She bore him 8 sons and 3 daughters, 11 of whom survived childhood: Pawel (1871–1924), Sergei (1872–1936), Vladimir (1873–1955), Stepan (1874–1942), Nikolai (1877–1951) , Michail (1880–1960), Evfimija (1881–1976), Dmitri (1882–1962), Fyodor (1885–1910), Nadeschda (1886–1937) and Alexandra (1887–1937). Nadezhda Pawlowna Rjabuschinskaja and Alexandra Pawlowna Alexejewa were shot in 1937 near Medvezhegorsk in the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and rehabilitated in 1989.

Ryabushinsky was buried next to his father in the Rogozhskoye cemetery. He left his sons 20 million rubles.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Энциклопедия Российского купечества: РЯБУШИНСКИЙ Павел Михайлович (accessed May 1, 2018).
2. ↑ fine art images: Pawel Michajlowitsch Rjabuschinski (accessed on May 2, 2018).
3. ↑ Музей предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей: РЯБУШИНСКИЕ - ЦЕЛАЯ ЭПОХА В ПРОМЫШЛИНОЙ (accessed May 1, 2018.
4. ↑ What buildings tell - patronage in Moscow in the 19th and 20th centuries (accessed on May 2, 2018).
5. ↑ Выставка “Купеческий портрет” (accessed on May 1, 2018).
6. ↑ Рябушинские купцы ( Memento of the original from May 3, 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 May 2, 2018),