Bazhenin, Ivan Nikiforovich

Ivan Bazhenin was born into a family of famous Arkhangelsk merchants and shipbuilders of the "glorious Bazhenin" . His father, Nikifor Fedorovich Bazhenin, is the son of one of the brothers of the founders of the Bazhenin shipyard in Vavchug. Ivan studied and brought up abroad - in Holland, he drew well, loved music, was fluent in several foreign languages. The album of drawings drawn by him with colored pencils, ink and watercolors in 1755 has been preserved.

After graduation, he took over the family shipyard, took up shipbuilding , shipbuilding and timber trade. He became a merchant of the 1st guild , one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the province.

On December 14, 1766, the Russian Empress Catherine II announced her Manifesto “On the Establishment of a Commission for the Drafting of a New Code”, which for the first time established the position of mayor “as a representative and leader of the entire urban population and guardian of urban interests.” According to established practice, the mayor was elected by the city election meeting from among the most honorable persons of the city society (nobles, eminent and honorary citizens, merchants of the 1st guild) who owned property in the city for at least 15 thousand rubles.

In February 1766 , Ivan Nikiforovich, who fell under the necessary qualifications, was elected to the post of the first power mayor of Arkhangelsk , established according to the Manifesto. In this post he launched a stormy activity, decided a number of city and merchant affairs. In 1767 , together with the famous traveler and bookseller, a future member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Alexander Ivanovich Fomin, he signed the "Order of the inhabitants of the city of Arkhangelsk to the Catherine Legislative Commission." In addition, Bazhenin was one of the initiators of the elimination of the monopoly on trade in animal fat and fish, and also implemented the letters of 1775 on the division of the Arkhangelsk Posad into merchants and philistinism.

From 1773 to 1777, in parallel with the performance of the duties of the mayor of the mayor, he was the burgomaster of the Arkhangelogorod provincial magistrate, and in 1777 became its president.

In March 1777, he left the post of the mayor of the mayor of Arkhangelsk, but already on July 6, 1780 he re-occupied this position. Under his leadership, on April 21, 1785, the first City Regulation was introduced, renaming the position of the Mayor, removing the power word from it, and also establishing that from now on he would be elected for a term of 3 years and head the General City Duma and its executive body - the Six-digit Duma. September 26, 1785 , in connection with the establishment of a new situation, Ivan Bazhenin finally left the post of mayor.

Until 1783, he continued the construction of merchant ships at the ancestral Vavchuzh shipyard. Being busy in the city service and constantly living in Arkhangelsk , he rented his shipyard under a lease, and in 1785 sold it for 25 thousand rubles to his Arkhangelsk relatives - merchants Ivan and Jacob Lyzhin.

In 1786, Ivan Bazhenin declared capital of 11,600 rubles. He owned a hereditary house, 11 shops and barns, the ancestral village of Vavchugu in Kholmogorsky district , near which were located a shipyard, water mills, forges, a factory of sailing canvases (to which 91 men’s souls were attributed according to a revision of 1782 ) and other property .

Ivan Bazhenin died in 1786 in Arkhangelsk and was buried in the cemetery of the ancestral village of Vavchug in the Kholmogory district of the Arkhangelsk province . A memorial plaque commemorates the Bazhenins family ^[5] .

• Grandfather - Fedor Andreevich Bazhenin , a merchant and shipbuilder, together with his brother Osip Andreevich Bazhenin created the first merchant shipyard in Russia (at the beginning of the XVIII century , on the Vavchug of the Kholmogory district of the Arkhangelogorod province ) ^{[6] [7]}
• Father - Bazhenin, Nikifor Fedorovich, a famous turner and shipbuilder
• Uncle - Bazhenin, Denis Fedorovich
• Son - Afanasy Ivanovich Bazhenin
• Son - Stepan Ivanovich Bazhenin, merchant ^[8]
  • Grandson - Nikifor Stepanovich Bazhenin ( 1790 - 1863 ), the last representative of the Bazhenin clan

• A well-known citizen of Arkhangelsk (1786) - for double service with a mayor with praise

• Bazhenin Ivan Nikiforovich // Old Arkhangelsk
• On this day, the post of the mayor of Arkhangelsk was introduced by the manifesto of Catherine II // Dvinainform
• Mayors of Arkhangelsk // Portal of the city administration of Arkhangelsk