Sergey Apollonovich Skirmunt ( 1862 - 1935 ) - publisher and bookseller, philanthropist, public figure.
| Sergey Apollonovich Skyrmunt | |
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| Date of Birth | December 25, 1862 ( January 6, 1863 ) |
| Place of Birth | Kursk Russian empire |
| Date of death | October 1, 1935 (72 years old) |
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | publisher, public figure |
Biography
Born December 25, 1862 ( January 6, 1863 in a new style) in Kursk in a military family.
Initially, he studied at the Moscow school of Creiman . Then he graduated from the Alexander Military School . In 1897, having received a rich inheritance, Skirmunt resigned and settled in Moscow . In the late 1890s, he opened the bookstore Trud on Tverskaya Street; in 1899, together with V. A. Krandievsky (1861-1928), he founded a publishing house with the same name, Trud, at the store. [1] One of the first among the booksellers created for his workers normal social working conditions: medical care, the issuance of subsidies from personal funds, full meals and paid vacations in the Crimea . Organizer and chairman of the "Society for the Promotion of Publicly Available Entertainment" in Moscow. He also was a member of the committee "Society for the delivery of funds to higher women’s courses." [2]
For revolutionary and propaganda activities, Skirmunt was repeatedly arrested and exiled. He was first arrested in May 1902, in August 1903 he was exiled for 5 years to the Olonets province , but in October 1904 he was granted amnesty. In November 1907 he was sentenced to three years in prison, but he managed to go abroad. He was in exile until 1926, when he returned to Russia. In the last years of his life, S. A. Skirmunt worked at the People's Commissariat of Labor, Gostorg, and the Association of Scientific and Technical Publishing Houses.
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He lived in Moscow in Granatny Lane, 22. He died on October 1, 1935 in Moscow. He was buried in the columbarium of the Novodevichy cemetery . [3]