Olovyanishnikova, Evpraksia Georgievna

Born July 15, 1851 in the family of the Yaroslavl merchant, philanthropist and public figure Egor Semenovich Gorshkov . She married Olovyanishnikov Ivan Porfiryevich - a merchant and an industrialist. Gave him ten children. In 1898, remaining a widow, she headed the Olovyanishnikovs family business with a declared capital of 1.5 million rubles.

In 1901, Evpraksia Georgievna became the Chairman of the Board of the closed joint - stock company in shares, in which she combined her enterprises: the bell factory, which she bought from the Olovyanishnikov’s heirs, the Volkushinsky paint and varnish production ^[1] , and the church utensil factory brought to the leading positions in the industry. She hired Sergei Ivanovich Vashkov , a famous artist. Since 1909, the company of Eupraxia Georgievna is the Supplier of the Highest Courtyard , and since 1911 it became the supplier of the Courtyard of Alexandra Fedorovna .

In 1913, in Moscow on Khokhlovskaya Square , designed by architect S.F. Voskresensky was built six-story apartment building Olovyanishnikovs ^[2] .

According to the documents of 1916, the commercial and industrial partnership “P.I. Olovyanishnikov’s sons ”belonged to 2 lead-bleaching plants, 1 lead-rolling mill, 1 paint-and-mortar and bell-casting factories ^[3] , numerous trading establishments and apartment buildings .

The interests of Eupraxia Olovyanishnikova were not limited to business. She followed book novelties, wrote out newspapers and magazines, and from year to year she signed up for a box at the Bolshoi Theater ^[4] .

After the October Revolution of 1917, enterprises owned by the Olovyanishnikovs were nationalized or liquidated.

Died July 2, 1925 in Moscow. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

Eupraxia Georgievna Olovyanishnikova was religious and donated significant funds to monasteries and temples, including the Trinity Church on the Dirt . For the Serafimo-Ponetaevsky monastery , a major center of religious art and crafts, it provided gold-woven products of its factory. In Yaroslavl, in the Vlasyevsky parish at the expense of Eupraxia Georgievna, an almshouse was opened and kept.

Among other charitable activities is the construction of the bell tower and the first wooden bridge over the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl, the establishment of scholarships for the poor Yaroslavl gymnasium students named after Shura Olovyanishnikova, who died in infancy ^[5] , financing the translation of the Bible into the Buryat language .

On November 1, 1906, Evpraksia Georgievna Olovyanishnikova donated the buildings and land on Poshekhonskaya Street to Yaroslavl to organize the first specialized children's infectious diseases hospital in the city. On October 5, 1907, the consecration and grand opening of the hospital took place. At a meeting of the Yaroslavl City Council on September 11, 1908, it was stated that for the year of their work, sick children spent about 2000 days in the hospital. At this meeting, the Duma filed a petition for the assignment of Eupraxia Georgievna Olovyanishnikova the title of Honorary Citizen of the city of Yaroslavl ^[6] .

• E.G. Olovyanishnikova
• Evpraksia Georgievna Olovyanishnikova

• V.V. Velichko. Yaroslavna: the success story of Yaroslavl women. - M: Vneshtorgizdat, 2005 .-- 287 p. - ISBN 5-88911-021-7 .