Sawwa Jakowlewitsch Jakowlew

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Sawwa Jakowlewitsch Jakowlew ( ML Kolokolnikow , 1767, Russian Museum , St. Petersburg)

Savva Yakovlevich Yakovlev , born Savva Yakovlevich Sobakin , ( Russian Савва Яковлевич Яковлев , maiden name Собакин ; born December 9 . Jul / 20th December  1712 greg. In Ostashkov ; † February 21 jul. / 3. March  1784 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian entrepreneur , major industrialist and patron .

Life

Savva Jakowlewitsch, son of the Ostashkov citizen Jakow Sobakin, like many of his peers, went to the new capital St. Petersburg in 1733 in search of happiness . There he started as a street vendor selling veal. Empress Elisabeth noticed him and became the veal supplier for the imperial table. The imperial favor allowed him to do profitable business. He leased the dispensing fees in Russian cities and also in smelting works in the Urals and took over part of the customs administration under favorable conditions for him. During the Seven Years' War he organized supplies for the Russian army. When he was caught manipulating, he threatened a court martial, from which he saved himself with money.

Sawwa Jakowlewitsch worked with his accumulated capital as an industrialist initially in light industry . He bought and expanded a tannery and took on equipment orders for Holland and England . He bought a sailmaker in Yaroslavl . As a successful entrepreneur, he needed a title. 1762 Jakowlew was for his special services by Peter III. , whom he had supported with money, into the hereditary nobility. recorded.

After Catherine II ascended the throne , Sawwa Jakowlewitsch had a church renovated, the poor condition of which Catherine II had lamented. Then he was allowed to take the noble name Jakowlew instead of his maiden name. He became a member of the Imperial Free Economic Society and associated with Mikhail Lomonossow , who instructed him in metallurgy . Jakowlew procured maps and books and traveled to Tula to acquire practical knowledge and to the Urals for the first time in the mid-1760s. He visited the iron and steel works and started negotiations with the owners. From 1766 to 1779 he bought 16 iron and copper works , including Prokofi Akinfijewitsch Demidow's most profitable works , and built six more, including one in Resch . He became the most important industrialist in the Urals and the most successful and richest businessman in Russia .

Yakovlev owned estates around St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg he owned a piece of land on Vasilyevsky Island next to the stock exchange , which he used as a warehouse for export goods. On his property between Fontanka and Sadowaja Uliza next to Sennaya Ploschtschad, he had a palace built by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli in 1766. On the Sennaya Ploschtschad, Andrei Wassiljewitsch Kwassow with participation of Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli at Jakowlew's expense 1753–1765 built the baroque Church of the Redeemer (Church of the Assumption of Mary) with a separate bell tower. In the 1780s he had a corner house built on Sadowaja Uliza (No. 38), which became the largest residential building in St. Petersburg.

Yakovlev was married to Maria Ivanovna and had five sons and two daughters. Yakovlev was buried in the Lazarus cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky monastery , to which he had donated abundantly. On the tomb there is a marble sarcophagus with a bronze relief of Yakovlev. In 1859 his grandchildren had a gate church built in honor of Sawwa Stratelates in the hermitage of St. Sergius in Strelna .

  • Yakovlev Palace (1766–1901), St. Petersburg

  • Church of the Savior on Sennaya Ploshchad, St. Petersburg ( Ferdinand Perrot , 1841)

  • Yakovlev House at 38 Sadovaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg

  • Sawwa Stratelates Gate Church of the Sergius Hermitage, Strelna

Web links

Commons : Sawwa Jakowlewitsch Jakowlew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Яковлевы . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XLIa, 1904, pp. 611 ( Wikisource [accessed November 20, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b История русских родов: Яковлевы купцы (accessed November 20, 2017).
  3. ↑ Мухин А. Б .: Савва Яковлев - купец, промышленник, предприниматель . In: Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета . No. 4 , 2005.
  4. ↑ a b Город Реж: рекорды и достижения . Resch 2002.
  5. ↑ Путеводитель Ленинград . Leningrad 1986, p. 151 .
  6. ^ Necropolis of the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra of the Holy Trinity: Yakovlev (Sobakin) Sawa Yakovlevich (accessed November 20, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Jakowlew, Sawwa Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sobakin, Sawwa Jakowlewitsch (maiden name); Яковлев, Савва Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian entrepreneur, industrialist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostashkov
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1784
Place of death St. Petersburg