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The Company helped provide churches and Anglican ministers at various times in Arkhangelsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kronstadt, such as St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow. The Company continued in existence until the Russian Revolution of 1917 and has since operated mainly as a charity. [2] Old English Yard Moscow
In 1985 Abramov became an entrepreneur. He owned cooperatives for sewing leather and fur products. [4] In 1991-2000 he headed the construction department at Ingosstrakh. In 2001 he worked as deputy general director of JSC "Moscow Insurance Company". [5] In 2006 he founded the public Museum of the Russian Icon from his private collection.
The Shelikhov-Golikov Company (SGC) was a Russian fur trading venture, founded by Irkutsk entrepreneurs Grigory Shelikhov and Ivan Larionovich Golikov in 1783. Formed in Eastern Siberia during the 1780s along with several competing companies, the SGC had operations in Kurile Islands and areas that later became Russian America .
Revillon Frères (Revillon Brothers) was a French fur and luxury goods company, founded in Paris in 1723. Then called la Maison Givelet , it was purchased by Louis-Victor Revillon in 1839 and soon, as Revillon Frères, became the largest fur company in France.
Russian fur-hunters began island-hopping along the Aleutian Islands. The Russian America Company was formed in 1799 with Okhotsk as its Siberian base. Okhotsk Abandoned: From at least 1719 it was clear that the Okhotsk route needed to be replaced if possible. Okhotsk was a poor port and the route to it the most expensive major route in Siberia.
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Advance of the promyshlenniki to the East. The promyshlenniki (Russian: промышленники, sg. промышленник, promyshlennik) [a] were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades.
All local furs were sold to the state fur company in Irkutsk or Tobolsk, two of the largest fur trading centers in Siberia. [12] A first-grade fox pelt was sold the state trading center in Irkutsk for 108 rubles – approximately $18 in 1990. That same fur was then sold in Anchorage, Alaska for over $150, or about 4,779 rubles. [12]