Bacchus Nazarovich Muravkin ( 1830 - 1901 ) - Russian merchant, hereditary honorary citizen .
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| Date of Birth | 1830 |
| Place of Birth | Vladimir Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1901 |
| A place of death | Vladimir Russian empire |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Father | Nazar Trofimovich Muravkin |
| Mother | Praskovya Anisimovna Muravkina |
| Spouse) | Irina Evtikhievna |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Family
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Biography
Born in 1830 in Vladimir in the family of Nazar Trofimovich of the Muravkin dynasty [1] [2] , who was engaged in gardening and from childhood accustomed to work on the land of his son, who was also interested in gardening.
In 1877, the family business of the Muravkin family passed into the hands of Bacchus, which he continued with his brother Sergei . The Muravkin brothers had about 200 acres of their own and leased land. Their gardens were located along the Lybedi River and beyond the Nizhny Novgorod outpost of Vladimir. Their products were sold in Vladimir , Shuya , Kovrov , Ivanovo-Voznesensk , Moscow , St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia. Up to 1,000 poods of potato and up to 50,000 pounds of cabbage were grown on their farm annually. They prescribed seeds for their crops from Russia, France, Prussia and the USA. At agricultural exhibitions in Moscow in the years 1860-1870, the Muravkins were awarded silver medals, and at the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition in 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod - a large silver medal. The brothers also engaged in timber and bread trade, having a steam flour mill behind the Yuryevskaya Zastava.
In addition to agricultural activities, Bacchus Nazarovich was engaged in public. Since 1870, he was the vowel of the Vladimir City Duma, since 1878 - the church elder at the Dmitrievsky Cathedral, since 1880 - the vowel of the Vladimir County Zemsky Assembly. Since 1991, he was a member of the Accounting Committee of the Vladimir branch of the State Bank and an honorary justice of the peace in Vladimir County .
For his diligent service, Muravkin was awarded gold medals on all existing ribbons: from Stanislavskaya to Andreevskaya inclusive. At the beginning of 1900, the Vladimir Society of Horticulture and Gardening awarded the Muravkin brothers a large silver medal "for the broad staging of valuable crops for gardening . " On April 1, 1901, a few days before his death, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree.
January 9, 1899 in the Vladimir printing house of V.A. Parkova published the pamphlet "The 100th anniversary of the gardening company of the Muravkins and the 50th anniversary of the conjugal cohabitation of Bacchus Nazarovich with Irina Evtikhievna Muravkins. The newspaper "Vladimir Provincial Gazette" wrote about them in the same year: [2]
“The whole land without a trace is occupied by greenhouses, which number up to 20 thousand. This mass of greenhouses, creeping along the slope to the river. Lybedi presents a very beautiful view on a spring and summer day, when viewed from the Trinity Wall. Covered with glass frames, they are like a large lake in which the sun shimmers with different colors of the rainbow. How much brilliance, light and warmth is here! ”
Bacchus Nazarovich Muravkin died in 1901 in Vladimir. When he was buried in the Cathedral of Dmitriev, Vladimir Governor N. M. Zeimern , Vladimir Mayor A. A. Shilov and many other officials attended. Bacchus Muravkina was buried in the Prince Vladimirsky cemetery in a family crypt .
Family
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| Cross on the site of the grave of Bacchus and Irina Muravkin | |
Upon reaching adulthood, Bacchus Nazarovich Muravkin married Irina Evtikhievna, a serf woman from Suzdal Uyezd , who was 12 years older than him.
After the death of the Muravkin brothers (Sergei Nazarovich died in 1915), the son of Sergei Nazarovich Muravkin — Nikolai Sergeyevich (1872–1930) continued his family business — engaging in gardening, gardening, and trading in bread. And also, according to family tradition, he was engaged in charity work.