Brusnitsyna merchants biography

The pages of history on our website in the section "Pages of History" We talk about people who came to the Spaso-Pargolovsky temple in pre-revolutionary times. The sacrament of baptism was made by priest Vasily Yunokovsky with Deacon Mikhail Belyaev and psalmist Nikolai Florovsky. Nikolai Nikolaevich Brusnitsyn Portrait of the brush V. Afanasyev eg. The Russian entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, owner of the tanning plant, a merchant of the 1st guild, a hereditary honorary citizen, the actual state adviser, the manufactory-adviser, the vowel of the City Duma of St.

Petersburg since the year. Nikolai Nikolaevich Brusnitsyn was born in the year in St. Petersburg. One of the three sons of Nikolai Mokeevich Brusnitsyn, who moved Petersburg from the city of Korchev, to the Tver province, acquired a house on the Vasilievsky Island, where leather production have been from the 18th century. In the Brusnitsyn family there were eight children - three sons and five daughters.

After the death of his father, the sons of Nikolai Mokeevich continued the family business together. Nikolai Mokeevich acquired one of the tanneous workshops in checks and opened a small production of 10 people. The modest workshop in overturning of the skin soon turned into the largest in the capital of the leather dressing plant with workers. The foundation of the tanny plant of the Brusnitsynes is considered the date of the tanny factory: this year, a factory was founded on two vast areas on both sides of the leather line belonging to N.

Brusnitsyn. Soon, the chief production building was built, according to the project of A. Andreev, subsequently expanded by E. Anikin and then V. Timofeev, the building is a model of the “brick style” in industrial architecture of St. Petersburg. The Brusnitsyn factory was the largest of the tsarist era and one of the most advanced skin production enterprises in Europe.

A partnership of N. was created in the year Brusnitsyn with his sons. " After the death of his father, the eldest son, Nikolai Nikolaevich inherited the enterprise, whose annual production exceeded 1 rubles, and became its director-administrator. Three brothers belonged to a control package of shareholds of the partnership. In years near the enterprise, hostels for workers on humans were built.

At dormitories, an evening school for workers acted, a infirmary was arranged. The company was equipped with the latest technology. One of the brothers, Alexander, regularly drove abroad, purchased modern foreign equipment, introduced modern technologies. In St. Petersburg, Brusnitsyna had several stores where handbags, belts, sandals and high -quality small leather products were sold.

After the revolution, the plant continued to work, its name changed many times. The enterprise exists now as OJSC Kozhevny Plant named after Nikolai Nikolaevich Brusnitsyn also held the post of vice-chairman of the Russian Council for the foreign trade of the bank and was a member of the board of the company of the Vladimir Tquetry Plant. He conducted active public work: Honorary Member and Member of the Council of the Personal Council to the victims of fire distress in St.

Petersburg; Honorary member of the Council of Commercial School; Honorary member of the 5th, 9th and th city trustees of the poor; treasurer of the Gavan free maternity hospital; a member of the committee to assist the widows and orphans of the victims in the war since the year; Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Executive Commission on charity since the year; member of the committee of trusteeship on folk sobriety together with his brother Alexander; Member of the Council of the Hospital of St.

Mary Magdalene; Member of the All -Russian Union of Institutions, societies and figures in public and private prosecution. Nikolai Nikolaevich always tried to help those who were in need. He gave money to shelters, to the almshots, and donated the temples for the distribution of the poor.

He donated significant funds for the construction of a hospital for chronically ill children to the “Society of Troubles of Poor and Pantish Children”, for the maintenance of the Evgenievsky shelter for arrested girls, was the trustee of the 6th city orphan house. In the year, on the occasion of the flight of the plant, the Brusnitsyn brothers began the construction of the almshouse on the oblique line - the housing houses for young orphans and called it in memory of their parents, Nikolai and Elena.

It was an architectural project of a new building, which Nikolai Nikolaevich decided to build soon. The merchant liked the plan. Real master! And he turned out to be right: Pavel Suzu, whom the merchant entrusted to design his new building, will erect one of the architectural pearls of St. Petersburg - the famous House of Zinger on Nevsky Prospekt. However, his current work was no less important.

The famous metropolitan architect designed the House of Causion for the merchant Brusnitsyn! Brusnitsyn became the chairman of the charity committee of the House of Charity. The main entrance of the Brusnitsyn Caulination House. The institution included a shelter on orphans with an elementary school, an almshouse for elderly workers on a person and a hospital. On the third floor of the main building was a house church.The Brusnitsyn family donated 1.5 million rubles for the institution.

In years, under the leadership of architect P. Sizor, a complex of buildings of the House of Charity was erected. The consecration passed on December 28, at the consecration of the house was present, blessing this good undertaking of Brusnitsyn, the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, the future new martyr Bishop of Yamburgsky Veniamin Kazan, and Prince A. was also present, and about two hundred orphans aged two to twelve were constantly living in Nikolai Brusnitsyn.

charitable institution. Old people and children were fully provided with everything necessary; A school and educational workshops worked in the House of Causiness. The inhabitants visited his services in his house church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. At the opening of the house, the priest was appointed Fr. Valerian Fedotovich Borotinsky, who was replaced by Prot before the revolution.

Ilya Ioannovich Zotikov, who remained until August at this place. The interior of the Nikolsk Church, at the Brusnitsyn's Causions House, a carved iconostasis, a workshop of A. In the year this iconostasis was transferred to the Kazan Church in Vyritsa. The main icons were lost during the Great Patriotic War. In the Kazan Church, only five works have been preserved: -tondo “Holy Trinity” in the iconostasis; -the icons of the holy equal apostles king Konstantin and the mother of his queen Elena, the Mother of God “all mourning joy” and “blessing of children” written by prof.

Koshelev; -Mosaic icon of St. Nicholas, made on the sketch of Koshelev by the famous mosaist - professor of the Academy of Arts M. Zoshchenko -, the father of a famous writer. The icon of "all mourning joy" prof. Koshelev, gg. The icon "Blessing of children." The church was closed on September 28. After some time, Nicholas Nikolaevich built a three -story hospital for all the poor residents of St.

Petersburg, in the outbuilding of which were located apartments for doctors, and a small chapel was built in front of the wipes. In years, another chapel was built in the garden - with the Brusnitsyn family crypt. On the day of the angel and the death of the parents of the benefactors in the temple, a memorial lunch was served. Almost immediately after the opening of Brusnitsyna, the House of Charity was handed over to the city.

For this they received gratitude from Emperor Nicholas II, and a memorial plaque in honor of the Brusnitsyn brothers was opened in the City Duma. Currently, in this building on the oblique line 15a there is the State Naval Academy named after Nikolai Nikolaevich Brusnitsyn died on October 23, in Petrograd. He was buried on October 28 in the Volkovsky cemetery.