Baron Andrei (Johann-Andreas) Lvovich Knoop ( 1855 - 1927 ) - Russian industrial and banking activist, philanthropist, full member of the State Councilor (1912).
| Knoop Andrey Lvovich | |
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| Date of Birth | 1855 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1927 |
| Allegiance |  Russian empire |
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Biography
Born in 1855 in Moscow in the family of the 1st guild merchant Lev Gerasimovich (Ludwig Johann) Knop (1821-1894), who was born in Germany and in 1839 arrived in Russia.
In the early 1860s, he was taken away by his father to Germany. He lived in Bremen , where he received a secondary and higher education. Then for three years he studied textile production in the UK and the USA . After that, he returned to Russia and in 1882 became a merchant of the 1st guild . In the years 1880-1890, Knop was involved in the cotton and tea trade in Moscow and at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair . Under the leadership of his uncle , IK Prove, he participated in the management of the family firm Ludwig Knoop, and in 1901 headed the firm and was its managing director in 1916.
Knoop was one of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. He was chairman and member of the boards of many industrial enterprises and banks, including the Moscow-Volga-Baku Oil Industrial Association [1] . In 1909–1914, he was a foreman of the Moscow Exchange Committee . In 1906, Andrei Knoop was one of the founders of the All-Russian Organization of Entrepreneurs - the Congresses of Representatives of Industry and Commerce and in 1906-15 he was a member of the Council of Congresses.
According to political convictions, he was an Octobrist , was a member of the Moscow Central Committee and the All-Russian Central Committee of the Union of October 17, and made major donations to the party. He was also engaged in charity work: he was a trustee of the hospital named after Emperor Alexander III and the Moscow Commercial Institute, a member of the Moscow Department of Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb. In addition, Knoop was a member of the Moscow Automobile Society .
He lived in Moscow - in his own mansion [2] in Kolpachniy Lane , 5 (built in 1900 by the architect CV Treiman ) [3] . After the October Revolution, he moved to Estonia , then to Germany .
He died in 1927.