Demidov merchant biography

In Tula, he had his own weapons factory, as well as an iron -smelting factory. In years, Nikita Demidov very successfully traded iron and was the owner of an iron plant. There is a version that Nikita Demidov was the only of the Tula gunsmiths who undertook to fulfill the king’s order for the manufacture of rifles according to the Western model. It was in the year.

As a result, Peter I made him a supplier of weapons for the army during the Northern War. The rifles supplied by Demidov were much cheaper than foreign and the same quality with them. That is why the king in the year ordered the Streletsky lands lying near Tula to dissolve in his property, and for the extraction of coal to give him a plot in the Scheglovskoga.

He also gave Demidov a special letter, which allowed to expand production by buying a new land and serfs for work in factories. From the year, Demidov built five more enterprises. During the war years, artillery guns and shells were also made for the Demidov’s army at the Demidov plants. At the same time, Demidov set the price half as much as other suppliers. In addition, since the year he became the only supplier of iron, anchors and guns for the Russian fleet.

The monument to Nikita Demidov and Peter the Great in Nevyansk and the iron from the Demidov plants was supplied not only for the army, but also for economic and household needs of the population. Therefore, having ensured the domestic market of Russia with a sufficient amount, the country has begun to export iron since the year and more and more every year. Between the Demidov factories, roads were laid for transportation of products, a shipping path along the Chusova River was cleared, rafting vessels, marinas, warehouses were built.

Being a successful industrialist and entrepreneur, Nikita Demidov also proved himself as a talented organizer, he personally delved into all the details of the factory, showing “jealousy to the fatherland”, delivered products to the treasury at a lower price, provided assistance and iron in the construction of St. Petersburg, founded the Tsiphire School in the city of Nevyansk now - the Nizhnetagal Mining and Mining College Name of the Cherepanovs.

By the year, the Urals mainly “Demidovsky” gave at least two -thirds of the metal of Russia. Peter himself was unlikely to expect such a result.

This could not but add the king’s respect for the “glorious blacksmith Nikita Demidov” - he was erected to hereditary nobles with the surname Demidov. Nikita Demidov died on November 28 in Tula.