Kiselev, Fedor Panteleevich

His father, Panteley Kiselev ( Panteli Kiseleff ), was a merchant from Ostashkov . Soon after the Abos peace treaty, he settled in Hamina.

Fyodor Kiselyov was also originally a representative of the Hamina town bourgeoisie, but in 1812 he moved to a new capital, Helsinki, where he received new bourgeois rights. Being a successful supplier of food for the Russian troops, Kiselyov was already in third place among the most significant taxpayers in Helsinki. The sugar factory, located at the intersection of Aleksanterinkatu and Unioninkatu, which he acquired in 1812, became his largest possession.

Due to the growth of Helsinki, the premises soon became cramped, and in the early 1820s Kiselev transferred the factory outside the city, to the shore of . In the period from 1839 to 1859, it was the only sugar factory. A brick factory, also owned by Kiselev, worked in the neighborhood. Karl Ludwig Engel redid the old factory building on Unioninkatu Street into a trading house known as Kiselev's house . Kiselev also had a number of significant orders, among other things, being a contractor, he carried out fundamental work at the cemetery in Hietaniemi and built the Church of St. Nicholas (now - Helsinki Cathedral ) in 1839-1843.

Kiselev was elected the first Russian to the council of elders of the city of Helsinki in 1829 and in 1833 he received the status of a commercial adviser . The Kiselev family , preserving the Orthodox faith, became one of the representatives of the upper middle class. Fyodor Kiselyov’s children were the owner of the plant, Nikolay Kiselev, and the chief architect, Konstantin Kiselev .