Alexander G. Kuznetsov (1856-1895) - Russian merchant, entrepreneur and philanthropist ; the owner of the largest tea trading company in the Russian Empire - the Commercial and Industrial Partnership " Alexey Gubkin, the successor of A. Kuznetsov and Co. " Honorary Citizen of Kungur (1885).
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| Date of Birth | December 23, 1856 |
| Date of death | July 27 ( August 8 ) 1895 (38 years old) |
| Place of death | Ostashevo estate , Moscow province |
| Occupation | philanthropist , entrepreneur |
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Biography
Born in the family of the Kungur merchant of the first guild Grigory Kirillovich Kuznetsov.
He studied at the St. Petersburg Commercial College , but did not finish the full course. For health reasons, he spent most of his life on his estate Foros [1] in the Crimea and in the south of France, in Nice [2] .
In 1883, he inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune from his mother-grandfather A. S. Gubkin [3] , a Kungur merchant who donated, among other things, more than 1.5 million rubles. the organization in Kungur of the Technical School and the Elizabethan House of Charity for Poor Children (later the Elizabethan Handicraft School ). Continuing the work of his grandfather, A. G. Kuznetsov donated hundreds of thousands of rubles annually for the maintenance of these educational institutions, built a cottage for pupils of a needlework school in the city pine forest [2] , and also Nikolsky Church over the grave of his grandfather [4] .
Kuznetsov did a lot for the Yalta gymnasium, for public schools and hospitals in different villages of the Moscow province , he donated large sums to the Orthodox community in Warsaw to support the church. At the expense of A. G. Kuznetsov, in 1892, the book “Tea and Tea Trade in Russia and Other States” was published [5] .
Russian biological stations in Sevastopol and Villafranca were organized for the amounts donated by him . At the expense of Kuznetsov, the ancient acts of Vyatka and Kungur , the works of Herodotus , Thucydides , Polybius (translated by F. Mishchenko ), Titus Livy (translated by Adrianov), the research of Professor Kulagin, an album of photo engravings from paintings by V.E. Makovsky were published. He also contributed to the magnificent publication in French of the proceedings of the Moscow International Congress of Naturalists in 1892.
Having become the owner of Foros, Kuznetsov turned it into a model estate of the European type. He pitched the famous Foros Park in the village, which is now a monument of landscape gardening of national importance, built a palace ensemble, which has survived to this day. The interior of the main palace in the style of classicism was created by Yu. Yu. Clover , Chagin, Makovsky. In 1892, over Foros, on the Red Rock, designed by architect Nikolai Chagin , at the expense of A. G. Kuznetsov, the Byzantine-style church of the Resurrection of Christ was built in honor of the Tsar’s family rescue near Borki , which became one of the visiting southern coast of Crimea [6 ] [7] .
The famous Kuznetsova yacht, one of the most beautiful and largest private yachts, was called Foros. On it in 1894, while parking in Cannes , the English king Edward VII visited [5] .
He died in his estate near Moscow Ostashevo and was buried in a family crypt in the cemetery of the Novo-Alekseevsky monastery in Moscow [8] .
Recognition
- Gold medal on the Stanislavsky ribbon
- Order of St. Stanislav II and III degree
- "Honorary Citizen of the City of Kungur" (1885) [2]
Notes
- ↑ After the death of A.G. Kuznetsov in 1895, the Ushkovs became its owners An archived copy of May 24, 2018 on the Wayback Machine - see the 150th anniversary of the birth of A.P. Chekhov. Was Chekhov in Foros? Archived August 29, 2012 on the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Curriculum Vitae (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 11, 2013. Archived May 23, 2013.
- ↑ Gubkin Alexey Semenovich (1816-1883) Archived July 11, 2013. .
- ↑ St. Nicholas Church (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 11, 2013. Archived April 3, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Kuznetsov Alexander Grigoryevich (tea tycoon) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 11, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Foros (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Everything about Foros (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 11, 2013. Archived February 24, 2013.
- ↑ Krasnoselsky synodik.
Literature
- Kuznetsov, Alexander Grigoryevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Foros - estate of A. G. Kuznetsov