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Varvara Petrovna chalice , born Varvara Petrovna Basanowa , ( Russian Варвара Петровна Кельх , maiden name Russian Варвара Петровна Базанова * 1872 in Irkutsk , † 1959 in Paris ) was a Russian - French patron .

Life

Varvara Petrovna was the daughter of the entrepreneur and patron Yulia Ivanovna Basanowa (1852-1924). After the death of her grandfather Ivan Ivanovich Basanov in 1883, she inherited the grandfather's capital in equal parts together with her mother and her uncle PA Siwers. After his uncle's death, Varvara Petrovna became the heir to the huge Bashanov company with gold fields , distilleries , salt pans and a steamship company . At the beginning of the 1890s, Varvara Petrovna came to Moscow with her mother and lived in the Moscow villa of the Basanovs on Mochowaja Ulitsa, which was built in 1886 by Simon Eibuschitz and Alexander Stepanowitsch Kaminski and acquired in 1892.

In April 1892, Varvara Petrovna married Nikolai Ferdinandowitsch (Fyodorowitsch) Kelch from a wealthy noble family who was secretary of the Committee of the Society for the Assistance of Needy Students at Moscow University and who set up a scholarship for needy students of the Law Faculty . When Nikolai Kelch soon died, she married his younger brother Alexander Ferdinandowitsch Kelch, who was a cornet in St. Petersburg as a graduate of Moscow University and the 4th Moscow Cadet Corps . Alexander Kelch remained in the civil service and worked as the administrator of his wife's business and manager of the Siberian mines and steamship company and the St. Petersburg real estate. Every year he bought a Fabergé egg with his wife's money as an Easter present for his wife, so that the second largest Fabergé egg collection after that of the imperial family was created here.

Villa Kelch, St. Petersburg

In 1896 the Kelchs bought the house at Sergijew-Strasse / Tschaikowski -Strasse 28, which Varwara Kelch had the architects Wassili Iwanowitsch Schöne, Wladimir Iwanowitsch Tschagin and Carl Schmidt convert into a Villa Kelch. Because of her charity work in Moscow, she did not settle in St. Petersburg until 1898.

Together with her mother, Varwara Kelch did extensive charitable work and participated in almost all of her donations. Varvara Kelch was a member of many charities in Irkutsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Their donations were used to award scholarships and build homes and hospitals. As the curator of the Irkutsk E. Medvednikova orphanage (named after the mother of the entrepreneur Ivan Logginowitsch Medvednikov Jelisaveta Medvednikova) she received the Golden Merit Medal on the Anna ribbon. She was the honorary curator of the Bazanov Education Home and Ivano Matreninskaya Children's Hospital in Irkutsk. In 1909 she became an honorary citizen of Irkutsk.

In 1904, Varwara Kelch separated from her husband and settled in Paris. In 1910 the couple officially declared their divorce. The children were raised by their grandmother Yulia Basanova. Alexander Kelch continued to take care of the charitable institutions, of which his wife was the curator, and of his mother-in-law until her death. He was arrested in 1930 and died in the camp .

Varvara Kelch lived in Paris until her death and was buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois . Some of their jewels came into private collections and have been exhibited in various museums around the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ИРКИПЕДИЯ: Кельх, Варвара Петровна (accessed August 20, 2020).
  2. ↑ Варвара Базанова и Александр Кельх - клиенты фирмы Фаберже (accessed August 20, 2020).
  3. ↑ Титов, В .: Четвёртое исключение Карла Фаберже . In: Капиталист . February 1, 2011 ( [1] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Овсянников, Р .: Семь яиц и много секретов из жизни Варвары Базановой-Кельх . In: Миллионер . July 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Е. Ю. Горбунова: Благотворители и меценаты в истории Московского университета . Издательство Московского университета, Moscow 2010, ISBN 978-5-211-05745-6 , p. 297 .
  6. ↑ Калинина И. В .: Особняк Кельха . In: История Петербурга . tape 18 , no. 2 , 2004, p. 83-89 .
  7. ↑ КГИОП приступает к реставрации неоготических дворовых фасадов особняка А.Ф. Кельха . In: Комитет по государственному контролю, использованию и охране памятников истории и культуры . June 8, 2016 ( [2] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
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  9. ↑ Хлебов, И .: Особняк сибирской миллионерши: история дома на улице Чайковского . In: Деловой Петербург . April 6, 2019 ( [3] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Польский ученый нашел часть пропавшего сервиза работы Фаберже . In: Курьер Медиа . September 1, 2017 ( [4] [accessed August 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Chalice, Varvara Petrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basanowa, Varvara Petrovna (maiden name); Кельх, Варвара Петровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-French patroness
DATE OF BIRTH 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Irkutsk
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Paris