Klyagin Alexander Pavlovich (Pavlinovich) (August 24, 1884, Oryol province - March 1, 1952, Paris , France ) - Russian engineer, entrepreneur, writer.
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Biography
Born in the family of a forester, a native of the Bryansk province, Pavel Klyagin. He graduated from the Oryol classical gymnasium (1903).
Graduated from St. Petersburg Practical Technological Institute (1909). He was engaged in automobile business, working in one of the garages in St. Petersburg, was considered one of the best experts in automobile business in Russia, and participated in car racing [1] .
In the years 1910-1912. Klyagin construction of the Amur Railway.
He worked on the construction of the railroad Red Kut-Astrakhan.
In the years 1912-1914. appointed representative of the Ministry of Railways in France and Belgium for the study of railway equipment and the purchase of equipment and rolling stock.
On October 27, 1913, A.P. Klyagin was awarded the light bronze medal in honor of the reign of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
In 1914 he participated in the purchase of railcars for the Ferghana and Amur Railways.
After the outbreak of World War I, A. Klyagin from Belgium walked to Paris on foot and returned to Russia on the last boat.
In 1915 he was appointed engineer for the construction of the railway at the construction of the Petrozavodsk-Sorokskaya and Murmansk railways , he was involved in the supervision of railroad laying works.
Since 1916, he was sent by the Ministry of Railways to France and Belgium, a representative of the Ministry of Railways for the procurement of equipment, tools, food for the construction of the Murmansk and railways. Multi-million purchases made it possible to build a strategic Murmansk road on time.
In addition, Klyagin becomes the representative of the Russian military attaché in Paris, Major General Alexei Alexandrovich Ignatiev [2] .
In 1920, he organized the Etablissmeurs A.Klaguine company in Paris, which was engaged in the supply of weapons to the Crimea .
Mason . Since 1922, a member of the Parisian Russian lodge "Astrea" No. 500 ( Grand Lodge of France ). Then a member of the boxes "Northern Lights" No. 523 and "Jupiter" No. 536 [3] .
Since 1923, under the auspices of the Anonymous Stockpile Operations Society, he has been supplying guns removed from the Russian squadron in Bizerte to the Latvian Arms Directorate and the governments of Finland and Estonia [4] .
He was a major philanthropist, established scholarships for 50 students, and donated 17,000 French francs for the needs of the Orthodox Church. In 1936, General Alekseev donated anchors, chandeliers, and marble slabs to the Committee for the Construction of the Monument Church of the Russian Squadron in Bizert from the ship of the Bizertsky Squadron he acquired.
There was a wife on the noblewoman Maria Nikolaevna Klyagina. In France, in 1926, he married a student in France, Claire Roban, as a wedding gift, he presented his “Napoleon” [5] .
From this marriage 2 children were born. During World War II, he supplied arms to Finland, and collaborated with Todt organizations on the construction of the Atlantic Wall .
During these works, Klyagin “pulled out many prisoners of war from Germany, supposedly for his strategic work, and then arranged for them free documents and released them” [6] .
Grasse granted two of his estates to the French Resistance.
After the war he was arrested on charges of cooperation with the occupation administration by the French authorities, but was released. He became the owner of several factories for the production of perfumes.
He died on March 1, 1952, was buried in the Russian cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois in Paris.
A.P. Klyagin is the author of several memory books about pre-revolutionary Siberia - “The Country of Extraordinary Possibilities” (1947) and “The Treasure of Mamaia” (1948) [7] . The first one was written at the request of his friend, the writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, who wrote the preface to this book.
Notes
- ↑ A. Klyagin Country of Extraordinary Opportunities Archival copy of April 13, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Ignatiev Aleksei Alekseevich Fifty years in service
- ↑ Shirokorad A. B. Alexander Klyagin - arms dealer and adventurer
- ↑ Russian guns in the service of the German Wehrmacht (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 13, 2014. Archived on April 13, 2014.
- ↑ Steinman L. Favorite gift for the bride. Hotel Napoleon
- ↑ B. M. Nosik Russian XX century in a cemetery near Paris
- ↑ Raspopin V.N.A.A. P. Klyagin