Button biography

The father of the Russian Sitz - the great -great -grandfather of the chairman of the European Commission Vladimir Anzikeev Russia and Europe are now close in a completely unexpected field. The new chairman of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain - the great -great -great -granddaughter Ludwig button, who was called the father of the Russian chintz. It is no coincidence that Tsar Alexander II made a button in the year Baron.

The famous Savva Morozov himself consulted with the button and became one of the first customers of the latest spinning and weaving machines that the button supplied to Russia. The sons became the successors of his affairs in Germany and England. The daughters remained in Bremen. One of the great-great-grandchildren of the father of the Russian Sitz Ernst Albrecht Ernst Albrecht became a politician and for 14 years was the Prime Minister of the Federal Land Saxony.

His daughter Ursula von der Layen Ursula von der Leyen followed in the footsteps of her father. It held various ministerial posts in the government of Merkel Angel Merkel, and is now elected chairman of the European Commission, which can be called the main executive body of the European Union. As for the Russian chitz, for the first time his triumphal history was told in all its details a hereditary merchant, the head of the famous Russian trading house Pavel Afanasevich Buryshkin.

He did this in the book "Moscow merchant", published about 60 years ago in the United States. After the revolution, Buryshkin emigrated from Russia. And although his book was absolutely apolitical and described the ancient times, it was not published in the Soviet Union. Only in perestroika times did its abbreviated version appear, and then in the Moscow publishing house Zakharov came out full.

Ludwig button with wife photo: gemeinfrei is one of those who are respecting and admiration for the author is the Russified German merchant Ludwig Knope. It was no coincidence that he was called the "father of the Russian chintz." In Moscow, there was even a saying: "Where is the church, there is a pop, where the factory is the button." A strong stomach and a clear head Ludwig button was born on August 3 in Bremen, in a merchant family.

At the age of 14 he entered the service in one Bremen trading office, but soon moved to England, to Manchester, where he began to work in the famous company de Jersey. He used the time of his stay in England to get acquainted not only with the trade in cotton, but also with all the industries of cotton production. The de Jersey company sold English yarn to Moscow, and in the year the button was sent to Russia as an assistant to a representative of this company.

He was then only 18 years old, he was full of strength and energy, he knew what he wanted. From that time on, his fantastic take -off began. It was rumored that with his successes, the button is obliged, among other things, the strength of the stomach and the ability to drink, maintaining full clarity of the head. The morals of the trade Moscow of that time were still almost patriarchal, and very many transactions were made in taverns, at the dining table or "outside the city, at the gypsies." The button immediately realized: in order to get closer to his customers, he needs to adapt to their habits, to the way of their life, to their skills.

Quite quickly, he became a pleasant conversationalist, always ready to share a friendly company and capable of withstanding the most serious trials in this regard. The turnkey manufactory has become a turning point for the button Equipment of the first Morozov factory. The Morozovs have worked in cotton business since the Patriotic War of the year. Creating their first factory, later famous for the Nikolsky manufactory, the Morozov instructed the young button to equip it with spinning machines and weaving machines that were produced by the English machine -building industry.

This task was very difficult to fulfill. England had no much desire to create a competing industry in foreign lands. But the button took up this business with extraordinary energy, and then his outstanding organizational talent appeared. He managed to establish business relations with a number of Manchester machine -building plants and receive a monopoly right to represent a representative office in Moscow.

The success of the Nikolsky manufactory was decisive. Others followed the frost. And over the next years, almost the entire textile mainly - the cotton industry of Moscow and neighboring regions was modernized and re -equipped.

The success of the button’s activity was greatly helped by the fact that, as he develops his activity, he got the opportunity to finance the enterprises served by him. Technical equipment was delivered not for cash and not on credit, but by increasing the fixed capital and the release of new shares, which served as a means of reckoning. The Nikolskaya manufactory, near G. Photo: Gemeinfrei, thanks to this method, emphasizes Buryshkin, the button became a participant in a number of enterprises, where his people were sitting in reign and other governing bodies.

But he did not seek to tightly control the associated cotton firms. Both the button and his proteges were, as the author of “Moskopoyskaya Moscow”, “Council men” was expressed, and this type of activity contributed a lot to the success of the Russified Germans.He was not afraid and willingly went to all sorts of agreements with him. The activities of the button’s office have expanded very much over time.

In particular, he stood at the origins of the legendary Kengolm manufactory today - Estonia. The button and his family were quickly angry. Ludwig button became Leo Gerasimovich and Russian subjects, then he received the title of Baron. He died in the year in Bremen. The activities of Ludwig button, concludes Buryshkin, was undoubtedly very useful for the development of textile affairs in Russia and in no way contributed to the subordination of the Russian industry to foreign capital, on the contrary.