The biography of Kokorev
Nominees Kokorev Vasily Aleksandrovich Kokorev Vasily Alexandrovich - entrepreneur, publicist, commerce adviser to the son of merchant salt from the city of Soligalich Kostroma lips. From the Old Believers of Pomeranian. He did not have a systematic education. B –41 manager of a salt factory in Soligalich. Since the beginning of the 10ths, he had been engaged in vinent bakes in Orenburg and Kazan, then in Orel.
The author of the notes on the reform of the soldier system formed the basis of the “Regulation on Squeezed-Acidity Commissioning”, since the 10ths he introduced trade with the Persia of the Ural iron, the import of cotton, founded the Trans-Caspian Trade Partnership; He participated in the institution of the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade, the Volga-Caspian Shipping Company "Caucasus and Mercury", the Society of the Volga-Don Railway to built the first oil refinery in Surakhan near Baku, belonged to the Baku oil company.
I made a huge fortune of 8.2 million rubles. After the cessation of wine squeezes, he incurred large losses, remained the treasury of 5.6 million rubles. In –65 he built a hotel and storage complex in Moscow at the Sofia nab. He participated in the institution of the Moscow Merchant Bank, founded the Volga-Kamsky bank in St. Petersburg in –76 Chairman of the Board. Together with Dr.
Chizhov et al. Gubonin and S. Polyakov, the initiator of the creation and the chairman of the board of the Northern Society of Insurance and the Warehouse of Products with the issuance of Warstanes was reorganized into the Northern Insurance Society established the Ural Railway. In X also led the merchant of salt Perm partnership in salt trade. He owned gold mines in the Urals, was the main shareholder of the Northern Telegraph Agency.
In X, he became close to S. Aksakov and M. developed a project for the liberation of serfs, in the article “Billion in the fog” “S. He proposed to cancel the noble monopoly on the acquisition of “populated places”, called on the merchants to acquire landowners with an obligation to allocate their land to the peasants, and expressed their readiness to buy such estates for 1 million rubles.
The Kokorev project, negatively met by large -scale nobility, remained unrealized, the author established unspoken police supervision before Kokorev criticized the economic policy of the government. At the sunset of life, in, Kokorev writes the book “Economic failures”, in which it gives an assessment of economic events for half a century. Analyzing the economic failures of Russia, Kokorev convincingly proves that they are, as a rule, the result of blind copying of foreign experience.
Especially it should be noted by the assessment of Kokorev’s bonded nature of external loans. He notes that these loans have become a means of oppressing Russia and the method of pumping its resources in favor of foreign capitalists. Instead of external loans, which are a heavy burden on the Russian economy, Kokorev proposed the idea of “printing of interest -free banknotes for productive and generally used state needs”.
At Kokorev’s funds, the architect N. Nikitin “Pogodinskaya Bay” in Moscow in the Russian style was built.
Kokorev collected an art collection of approx. Bryullov, who was open to visiting, becoming one of the first public art museums in Moscow. In connection with financial difficulties, he sold the main part of the collection to the Ministry of the Imperial Court now in the Russian Museum, a number of paintings were bought by P. Tretyakov, paintings by Western European masters - D.
During the famine, Kokorev became part of the Committee to help the starving. Before the Russo-Turkish war, –78 participated in the formation and equipment of a military mission in the Balkans in Serbia. In the near Vyshny Volochka Tver lips. Academic cottage Vladimir-Mariinsky Shelter for the summer practice of students of the Academy of Arts Later the House of Creativity named after Kokorev financed the foreign internship of a number of artists.
In Kokorev awarded the title of honorary member of the Academy of Arts. Vasily Kokorev was one of the first very rich people in the middle and second half of the XIX century, which was widely engaged in patronage. He was one of the most famous for his wealth and social activities of the people of Moscow.