Yakov Shamov Biography

And he had a son Yashka, a nimble so small, Vostroy’s mind and grasping everything on the fly, born in the year. Time passed, and Yashka Shamov was given to the doctrine of the eminent Kazan merchants of the Fomin-Old Believers to begin to comprehend the "merchants" sciences, in which Fomins were very informed. The Fomins brothers, of which there were three, lived on the street, which is now called Stolbov, in two houses under a single serial number one.

These houses are standing today at the gas station on the street. One, few people know that once at the place of this refueling and the adjacent square was the famous bazaar in the city, poured even in the verses of the great Tuky. The houses of the Fomin brothers went out with the facade directly to the bazaar’s retail space, and the theory of merchant sciences was reinforced here for Yashka Shamov’s trading practice.

Soon, Yashka was produced by one of the Fomini brothers in the clerks, became called Jacob Filippovich and became the boyfriend of the owner of the owner, Agrafena Khristoforovna. The wedding was played magnificently, with a merchant scope, and at the wedding table they were given the brothers to the brothers to the boyfriend of their “good” to open his own “business”, promising to help with advice and means.

Yakov Filippovich’s affairs immediately went uphill, and he soon became the tenant of the largest mill in the city of a Kazanka in five floors, perhaps the same one in which the Cossack king Emelka Pugachev was hiding for some time, having escaped the guest-Dvorsky casemate. Soon, an active and successful merchant becomes one of the largest bakeries in Kazan and the entire Volga region and, as they used to say in those days, a “millionaire”, because only one of his huge mills in the Kazan had more than half a millionth.

Had a mill and another function. During the periods of a particularly ill -wilated attitude of the authorities to the Old Believer branch of religion, Yakov Shamov arranged a secret chapel in her, where the Old Believers from all over the city flocked. Once at this gathering, Y. Shamov was elected head of the Kazan Old Believers community. This "position" helped him become the chairman of the board of the Kazan merchant bank, for there were many among the Russian merchants and industrialists of that time of the Old Believers in the city.

From time to time, Shamov went to the father -in -law, who had long been bypassed by capital and by weight in the city, to pay tribute and thank for science. He even settled very close to the Fomini - across the street, on the former Fuchsovskaya, which is called today Kamal Street. Shamov’s house under the number two and until now stands at its very beginning, and behind his thick walls a completely different life flows than a hundred years ago.

Then Yakov Filippovich lived only in the left side of the corps of the house, and the entire right half of it was determined under the warehouses. Behind the gate and the house there was a prayed courtyard with one single tree, for both the courtyard and the house were for Shamov, in fact, a trading enterprise. Around the perimeter of the courtyard stood brick pantries behind iron doors under heavy constipation.

And today, if you look into the courtyard of the house from the side of the Street Right Bulan, you can see the remains of these pantries, folded of red brick. And what bottomless basements had Shamovsky pantries! Every day, excluding, of course, the pioneers, stretched into this yard, lining up in line, whole carts of carts with culs, bags and barrels, waiting for their turn to unload.

Each cart suited all his proud, well -eyed clerk with antennae and in the brilliance of filled boots; Having shutdown the pencil, he wrote something in a notebook and only after that he gave the command to unload. And rolled into the deep basements of pantries and warehouses of barrels, rumbling along wooden flooring; Kuli with flour and bags of grain disappeared in the open -footed mouths of the hangars - the whole mechanism worked clearly and harmoniously.

Immediately, by unloading and loading, the clerk - at the present time, even with difficulty believed - immediately calculated the carters and workers, and the parties dispersed, very pleased with each other. Shamov, as, in fact, many Kazan primary merchants, invested part of his income in real estate and had two more houses in the central part of Kazan, standing one near the other on Voznesenskaya Street.

These houses are intact, wear both single serial number and have the address of Ostrovsky, they are built in the style of classical eclecticism and make up a single complex of a wealthy city estate along with stone traveling gates - here Yakov Filippovich was resting, already at the age of the righteous. However, the merchant Ya. Shamov was known in Kazan not only as a large rich-chief-bogorgovets and the head of the Old Believer community, but also as the largest philanthropist and philanthropist.

He donated considerable amounts for the needs of the city, participated in many charitable subscriptions, and the last gift to the city before finding an eternal refuge in the Arsky cemetery, was the construction of a three -story, and even on the basement, beautiful and modern at that time of the hospital, built, in the form of the initial letter of his surname on the so -called third Woe, from the foot of which the modern Kalinin Street originates.

Evil languages ​​said that this hospital is a tribute to the authorities and God, for in the Russian -Japanese war he was counted of the summer old demon and he deliberately set up the army of catchy flour, which made various gastric bunks among the front -line soldiers. And if this hospital was not - to be Shamov in the declining years of a prisoncapor of years, it was so or otherwise - we will not judge.

One thing is known - Yakov Filippovich died in the year by an honorary citizen of the city and with the rank of merchant of the first guild, and the construction of the hospital was brought to the completion of his wife Agrafena Khristoforovna. The hospital was solemnly opened in the spring of the year and received the name "Shamovskaya". Since then, the hospital survived almost a dozen campaigns to rename everything and everything, but has retained its name in everyday life and now it is unlikely to be called the people somehow differently.

And this means that the name of the merchant Jacob Filippovich Shamov will not be forgotten. You know, this is exactly how the immortality of HE HAD A SON, Who WAS Born in Soon Philipp Shamov Gave His in Marriage to the Daughter of a Rich Kazan Merchant Fomin. With Help of His Fatherin-Law Yakov Began His Own Business. SOON He Rented A Big Five-Storeyed Mill On the River Kazanka.

An Active and Lucky Businessman Became One of the Biggest Merchants in Kazan. That Mill Had One More Function. When Old-Belief Was Persecated, There Was a Clandestine Chapel. The Old-Believers from All Over The Town Ussed To Meet There.

From Time to Time Yakov Visited His Fatherin-Law, Whom He Had Surpassed in Capitals and Influence in the Town, To Pay His Homage and to THEACH HIM. He Bouught a House Near the Fomins in Fuxovsky Street Today Kamalov Street. Today Another Life Passes Beond Its Walls. At that time yakov Philippovich lined only in, The left -wing of the Building. There was a warhouse in the right part.

Beyond The Gate and Behind the House There Was a Cobbled Yard with the only Tree in it. The House and the Yard Were A Working Place for Yakov Shamov. All Along The Yard Perimeter there Placed Red Brick Storerooms, Which Can Be Seyen Till Today in Pravobulachnaya Street. Yakov Shamov, Like Other Serious Merchants, Invested in Immovable Property and Owned Two Buildings in the Central Part of Kazan, In Voskressy Street Today OSTROVSKY STREET, They Were Built in Classical ECLECTICISM STYLE.

Together with The Stone Gate They Presented a Pattern of a Rich Townestate. BUT Yakov Philippovich Shamov Was Known in Kazan Not Only as a Rich Cornmerchant and the Head of Old-Belief-Commune But Also as a Philanthropist and Patron Arts. He Made Donations to the Town, Took Part in Numerous Charitable Actions. HIS LAST GIFT, BeFore HIS Death, Was a Beautiful Three-Storeyed Hospital, Built in Fourst Letter of His Surname.

The Hospital Was Situated On the So-Called Tretya Gora, from the Foot of Which The Present Kalinin Street Begins. IT WAS RUMOURED THE THET THE MODERN, FOR THE TITAL, HOSPITAL WAS A Tribute to God and Authorites, BecAuse During the Russian-Japanese War The Saventy-Two-Year Merchant Had Deliberately Supplied the Russia with Spoiled Flour. Because of That Gastric Diseases Began to Worry Soldiers.

And But for the Hospital, Shamov Woold Be a Prisoner in His Decline Years. BUT One Thing is Certain: Yakov Philippovich Shamov Made a Valuable Contribution to the Town and Died in, As An Honary Citizen and Topguild Merchant. HIS WIFE, AGRAPHENA KHRISTOPHOROVNA, FINISHED HOSPITAL BUILDING, Which Was solemnly Opened in and Named "Shamovskya". SINCE THE HOSPITAL ENDURED SEVERAL CAMPAIGNS of RENAMING BUT KUPT in US FORMER NAME.

Now it is Hardly be Called Differently. And it Means that number of yakov Philippovich Shamov Will Never Be Forgotten. Advertising on Kazadmin.