Abrikosov Confectioner Biography
Abrikosov Sons ”is now Babaevsky’s concern, as well as owners of confectionery and tea shops in Moscow, the supplier of the court of his Imperial Majesty, Chairman of the Council of the Conscious Bank, the actual state adviser. The grandson of the confectioner Stepan Nikolaev, the founder of the dynasty, who came to Moscow from the Penza province to work at the age of 64; His descendants accepted the name of the Abrikosovs.
Alexey Ivanovich studied at the Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences, but did not graduate from the course.
Subsequently, throughout his life he sacrificed the development of the Academy. He worked for hire, from a year - an independent entrepreneur. In the year he married Agrippina Alexandrovna Musatova, daughter of the Moscow perfume and confectionery manufacturer. Five thousand rubles of the dowry served as the initial capital of the Apricot confectionery enterprise. Alexey Ivanovich and Agrippina Alexandrovna had 22 children - 10 sons and 12 daughters, 17 of them survived to an advanced age.
In the spring of the year, the "Factory Trade Partnership" A. Abrikosov Sons "acquired a land plot with an area of 4 hectares on Malaya Krasnoselskaya Street in Sokolniki, where a confectionery factory was built. By the beginning of the 20th century, it was a huge enterprise of workers at that time, where about four thousand tons of caramel, sweets, chocolate and biscuits per year were produced.
In the year, the partnership "A. From the year - the founder and director of the tea trade “Brothers K. Aprikosov’s store was on the Kuznetsk bridge in the passage of Solodovnikov. There was a year among the founders of the Moscow merchant company of mutual loan, and subsequently - the founder and chairman of the Council of the account - the monastery was closed in the year, and the cemetery was destroyed.
During the Crimean war, Apricot made annual ruble donations to hospitals and militia. Later he became a member of the Committee for Assistance to the Families of the Military and Wounded in War with Turkey, he joined the Council of the House of the Moscow Merchant Society for free apartments in the year. He served the headman of the Assumption Temple on Pokrovka.
At the end of the year, his wife opened a free maternity shelter and a women's hospital with “A. Apricot Permanent beds” for five beds. Abrikosova bequeathed to the city rubles for the construction of a maternity hospital; Building for the project I. Ivanova-Shitsa on Mius Square for 51 beds was consecrated in May with the addition of urban funds, the construction cost rubles.
According to the decision of the Moscow City Council, the new maternity shelter began to officially bear the name of Agrippina Aleksandrovna Abrikosova, after the revolution - was renamed the named after N. Krupskaya, in the year the name of the founder was returned to him.