Volkovs (merchant family)

Ivan Seliverstovich ( 1779 (?) - 1842 ) is considered the ancestor and the most famous representative of the merchant family of the Volkovs , a state peasant , a native of origin, the newly-baptized repair of the Verkh-Lyuksky Balezinsky volost of the Glazovsky district of the Vyatka province . Together with his father, he was engaged in the purchase and resale of agricultural products (bread, flax, lard), peasant products (leather, bast, canvas), as well as forestry (furs, honey, wax).

Since 1803, Ivan Seliverstovich was a merchant of the 3rd guild, since 1806 he was a merchant of the 2nd guild with a capital of 8,100 rubles. In addition to agricultural products, he also traded in brick, wine, and engaged in usury . By the end of Alexander I’s reign, the capital of the Glazov merchant was 22,100 rubles. In 1826 - 1831 he performed a government contract for the supply of postal and courier horses, the maintenance of postal stations along the Siberian Highway , as well as river transport ( 1832 - 1836 ).

Twice - in 1811 and 1831 - Ivan Seliverstovich was elected by the mayor of Glazov . In 1812, he organized the collection of donations for the needs of the people's militia in the war against Napoleon’s troops - he contributed 1,405 rubles from residents and entrepreneurs of Glazov, and personally donated 200 rubles. In 1818 he participated in the translation of the Gospels of Luke and John into the Udmurt language . In 1833, by order of the Vyatka Treasury Chamber, Ivan Seliverstovich and his family members were considered honorary citizens of the city of Glazov.

In the 1840s, Volkov received a contract for the construction of a cemetery church in Glazov, after which he entered into an agreement with the Nizhny Novgorod peasant Lazar Kazarinov to lay the church "with his best working people for the best craftsmanship under the mark". However, at the very beginning of construction, November 22, 1842 , Ivan Seliverstovich dies at the age of 63 years.

His work was continued by his son - Osip (Joseph) Ivanovich ( 1800 - 1844 ), a merchant of the 2nd guild, but soon died of consumption . In the last years of the dynasty, its head was the wife of Osip Ivanovich - Daria Pavlovna ( 1801 - 1862 ), who was helped by his son Mikhail Osipovich ( 1825 - 1853 ). The main subject of trade is still agricultural products and forestry and handicraft products. The Volkovs own several houses in Glazov, mills, residential and household buildings, large land property (763 tithes ). The deaths of the son of Mikhail ( 1853 ), the daughter of Anna ( 1844 ) and her husband ( 1857 ) and, as a result, the care of her granddaughter Ekaterina, which fell on her shoulders, did not allow Daria Pavlovna to conduct active entrepreneurial activity, and she transferred the conduct of affairs to her daughters and sons-in-law. After the death in 1868, Darya Pavlovna, the inherited property was sold, and the absence of direct male heirs completed the history of the merchant dynasty.

From 1822 to 1837 in Glazov on the street Kruglovoznesenskaya (now Pervomaiskaya), a merchant Ivan Volkov built a two-story stone house in the style of classicism . It was here that in 1837, the heir to the throne traveling around the country, the future Emperor Alexander II , who was accompanied by the poet Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky and historian Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev , stopped for the night of May 20-21 . When leaving, the prince ordered to give Ivan Seliverstovich an expensive ring, and to give 300 rubles to the poor inhabitants of the city.

In 1861, the heirs of the merchant Volkov surrendered the estate under the premises of county government offices . In 1863, the building was sold to the Glazov district zemstvo council; rooms for her congresses were located here, as well as a pharmacy.

With the establishment of Soviet power in the city, the House of Socialist Culture was located in the building. From 1942 to 1946, the evacuation hospital department was located here, and in the post-war years the house was occupied by the Glazovsky District House of Culture. In June 2006, the building was acquired by an individual entrepreneur.

In accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic No. 362 of May 5, 1979, the house of the merchant Volkov was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments subject to state protection as a monument of local importance.

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