Lanin, Nikolai Petrovich

Nikolai Petrovich Lanin ( 1832 - 1895 ^[1] ) - Moscow merchant of the 1st guild. Hereditary honorary citizen .

Born March 21, 1832 . He graduated from the 3rd Moscow gymnasium ; then studied technical sciences abroad. Upon his return to Moscow, he founded a plant of artificial and mineral waters (1852), which he sold wholesale and retail in his own store, Laninsky Vody, as well as in other shops of the city under the company N. P. Lanin. " Also, his factory produced, as V. A. Gilyarovsky wrote, artificial "lanin" champagne, "which was served to tipsy guests in restaurants for the present and was in fashion at all weddings, name days and revels of the average hand"; “Everything is cheap here: vodka is a ruble a bottle, wine is also a ruble’s bottle, different ports, Madeira Lisbon made in Moscow, up to two-ruble champagne, about which they immediately sang a song:“ From the Laninsky rederer the head is cracking and swelling ”.”

He was elected by the Moscow Exchange Society (1876-1879).

At the end of 1880, he acquired the newspaper Russky Courier , edited by V. A. Goltsev and F. D. Nefedov . In the 1880s, the Laninist newspaper pushed aside the popular Voice and the St. Petersburg Gazette in the 1870s. Half the page of the last page of the newspaper was occupied by almost the only advertisement with emblems and medals about effervescent waters and “Lanin” champagne, which, heavily advertised, sold well and covered the expenses of the unprofitable newspaper; Lanin stopped its release only after 9 years - due to "circumstances beyond his control."

Repeatedly elected as the vowel of the Moscow City Council (1869-1872; 1873-1876; 1877-1880; 1881-1884; 1885-1888; 1889-1892) ^[2] . In the merchant composition of the Moscow City Duma of those years, Lanin was one of the leaders of a large and very active group of vowels from the "third category" (bourgeois and artisans of Zamoskvorechye and industrial settlements). The mayor (1881-1883) B.N. Chicherin noted: "In my time, a little more ..." ulcer "- the merchant Lanin, who traveled in high-profile liberal phrases; he occasionally continued to rant in meetings, but for the most part was content with the Russian Courier published by him.

He died on April 2, 1895 . He was buried in the cemetery of the Alekseevsky convent .

Moscow homeowner (1903): Novaya Basmannaya street , 25; Sofia Embankment , 178.