Poklevsky-Cosell, Alfons Fomich

He came from the noblemen of the Lepel district of Vitebsk province , Belarus . He was educated at the Polotsk PR School and at Vilnius University , then he entered the service of the State Control Department for the Department of Maritime Reports . In 1831, he was transferred to the Astrakhan Treasury to separate the treasury as an assistant to the head clerk. In the same year he was promoted to clerical. In 1832, he was awarded the rank of college registrar . In 1833, he served as the head of the economic department, but the service in Astrakhan did not open up special prospects for him. In connection with the 1830 uprising in Poland in the capital, it is difficult to build a career for an energetic Belarusian nobleman of the Roman Catholic religion. Although in 1837 he received a gratitude "for excellent and diligent service" from the Minister of Finance EF Kankrin , but still decided to forever connect his fate with Siberia .

In 1834, Alfons Fomich transferred to the office of the Tomsk provincial administration, and a year later he was appointed secretary of the local provincial construction commission. His career here was short-lived. Already in 1835 he served in the executive police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , and a year later, Alfons Fomich was transferred to the staff of the Petersburg Treasury Chamber as an assistant to the wine bailiff of liquor stores, and soon as a special assignment officer. In 1836 he was hired by the Governor-General of Western Siberia P. D. Gorchakov .

In 1841, he was promoted to college secretary “with seniority”, in 1845 he was appointed official of special assignments at the Main Directorate of Western Siberia, and on May 4, 1845 he received the rank of titular adviser “with seniority”. In 1847, the merits of Alfons Fomich were awarded the Order of St. Stanislav III degree. In 1849 he received the rank of college assessor and in 1850 he was awarded the distinction for 15 years of immaculate service. Two years later, "the entrepreneur prevailed over the official." The court adviser Alfons Fomich filed a letter of resignation, and on February 10, 1853, it was granted.

Shipowner

In 1843, being an official of special assignments at the Main Directorate of Western Siberia for financial matters, he bought the Osnova steamer launched in 1838 in Tyumen from the merchant of the 1st guild and the privilege to establish navigation on Lake Baikal and the Ob rivers , Tobol , Irtysh , Yenisei , Lena and their tributaries. He modernized the "Basis" and in 1845 made the first flight to Tobolsk . In 1846, together with the Tyumen merchant N. F. Shvetsov, Poklevsky-Kozell opened the first shipping company in Siberia, “A.F. Poklevsky-Kozell and Co. ° Shipping Company”.

Poklevsky-Kozell opens 2 trading houses (in Tyumen and Tomsk ), at 2 ends of the route (1,600 km) and is engaged in the supply of food, grain, flour for the army and employees of enterprises. Poklevsky-Cosell was the leader in the transportation of goods to the Ob until the end of the 1850s, at times providing his vessels for the free transportation of administrative Polish exiles. After the resignation, the ex-official completely goes into business, invests substantial funds in shipbuilding.

In 1856, at the Yekaterinburg plant, the British P.V. Gax and G.I. Gulet made for him a steam engine of 100 horsepower, which was installed on a "wooden vessel of a new and beautiful design" built in Tyumen. Then, with the Osnova and Irtysh vessels, he entered the Experience company, and in 1860 , having received his share, he left it. In the same year, acquired a new 120-strong ship, but left the shipping business in the late 1860s.

Vodka King of Trans-Urals

The Talitsky state-owned distillery by the end of the 1850s fell into utter decline, as production was slowing down, there was no equipment, the building was dilapidated. The treasury sold it in 1869 to Alfons Fomich for a small amount. Since then, the Talitsky factories have become large capitalist enterprises, and their owners - monopolists of drinking work. In the fortress of the Yekaterinburg notarial archive of the book on the Kamyshlovsky Uyezd for 1899 there is such an entry: “stone factories: distilleries, distillation and distillery-yeast with a mill and malt-house, cellars, apartment houses and other buildings that are located on the state-owned land of the Kamyshlovsky district in the Talitsky factory, acquired by AF Poklevsky-Cosell from the treasury ... June 13, 1869, valued at 363 thousand 300 rubles. " In the same 1869, Poklevsky-Kozel acquired another distillery in the village of Yertarsky for 22 thousand rubles - a stone winery with a water mill, dams, residential buildings, various establishments and outbuildings. After a while, he converted the Vinnitsa into a glass making factory , which began supplying his distillery with glassware. For ten years, Alfons Fomich was the owner of eight distilleries and related industries. I bought it cheaply. It was more profitable for the former owners to sell their plants than to suffer losses from them. Buying up, the new owner energetically converted the factories, set up modern production. He chose Talitsa as his place of residence. In 1859, he bought a small house for 300 rubles from a local resident, in 1862 - a more decent one for 1,800 rubles, in which he settled with his family. He lived in it until his death. His son Vincent , continuing his father’s work, also remained in Talitsa, having moved to a new house he had rebuilt, which has survived to this day.

The village of Talitsky was more often called the wine town. Before the First World War, Talitsky factories produced annually more than 800 thousand buckets of alcohol , up to 800 thousand buckets of beer and about 13 thousand pounds of yeast . Beer was produced in different varieties: Viennese, folk, table, expeditionary, Bavarian, Russian, "Export". Its price at the Irbit Fair was low: Vienna 1 ruble 80 kopecks., Bavarian 1 ruble 50 kopecks., Russian 1 ruble 10 kopecks. per bucket (20 bottles). Most of the varieties of wine and beer had exhibition gold medals displayed on the labels.

In 1883, construction began on the Trans-Siberian Railway section Yekaterinburg - Tyumen . The branch was planned near the village of Lugovaya. However, Alfons Fomich, using contacts in the government senate , for the convenience of delivering raw materials and shipping products from his Talitsky distillery, achieved a change in the project and the station was moved two hundred and first verst from Yekaterinburg. At the station appeared the so-called "Poklevsky settlements". Then, already at the beginning of the 20th century, the village was renamed Holy Trinity, and after the revolution, the village became simply Trinity . Poklevskaya station retained the name of its founder until 1963 , when it was renamed Talitsa station.

Charitable activities of Alfons Fomich had a significant impact on the development of culture, education, health care of the region. He donated large sums for the organization and maintenance of hospitals, schools, gymnasiums, libraries. In Talitsa, at his own expense, he built and maintained the entire building of the male school, and after its transformation into the Ministerial two-year school annually allocated up to 2 thousand rubles for its maintenance. By the decision of the Kamyshlovsky district zemstvo, which repeatedly thanked him, a portrait of Alfons Fomich was made and hung in the school building. He also kept a female school. He provided significant assistance in the construction and maintenance of a hospital, pharmacy, forest school. Alphonse Fomich will serve Mom-Sibiryak as a prototype for some heroes: Lyakhovsky (novel Privalov Millions) and Maystabrovsky (Bread). The latter is shown not only as a major businessman, but also as an intellectual, an aristocrat, a wonderful family man and a humane person in personal relationships.

Alfons Fomich died in 1890, at the age of 80. All estates for this period were estimated at 1,595,238 rubles 55 kopecks. In the Irbit Fair List for 1891, a contemporary noted: “By his position, significance, influence, he was an outstanding personality, loud not only in our region, but - without exaggeration, you can say - and throughout Russia.”

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