Maria Eliseeva Biography

Blog Maria Andreevna Eliseeva International Women's Day is celebrated annually on March 8. In Estonia, this holiday has always been a contradictory attitude - a holiday that grew out of the struggle for women's rights and which was previously celebrated in a narrow family circle, became a public holiday in Soviet times. In the years, they almost abandoned the celebration of women's day as a remnant of the Soviet era, but after a short period of oblivion on March 8, it again became the day, which is noted and in which they speak of an important role of women.

On this contradictory day, it is worth recalling a woman with a rather mysterious and strange fate-about the mistress and soul of the Toyla-ORA palace, Maria Eliseeva. Maria was born on the first day of the year in the capital of the Russian Empire of St. Petersburg, in the family of the king of breweries and the merchant of the first guild Andrei Ivanovich Durdin. Maria - for her Masha, officially Maria Andreevna Durdina - became the sixth daughter of the family.

The Durdin brewery was one of the five largest beer manufacturers in the Russian Empire, the plant had the right to place the state emblem of the two -headed eagle on its products, which testified to the high quality of products. The Durdin’s beer bottles could be recognized on the shelves of stores from afar, as the beer was spilled into pyramidal bottles of amber glass, and a dozen branded stores served numerous customers around the clock.

In such an environment, Masha grew up a determined, tactful girl with an entrepreneurial vein. When at the age of 18 she was introduced to her peer Grisha, the son of her father’s friend, she was a shy girl with fluffy hair. In the year, Grigory made Maria Andreevna a marriage proposal. Grigory Eliseev with Mairi Durdina and although all her sisters married, it was Maria Andreevna’s marriage that was the most successful for a long time - she married the famous merchant, the owner of the luxurious “Eliseevsky stores” Grigory Grigoryevich Eliseev, also becoming a co -owned of the Eliseeva Trading Partnership.

Maria and Gregory made a marriage by calculation, as often happened in the merchant environment. Maria Eliseeva participated both in the work of the trade partnership and in the work for the benefit of society. She led the accounting department of the trade partnership, talked with business partners and helped to inspect wine cellars. She headed the hospital committee created by St.

Petersburg ladies; During the Russo-Japanese War, she also led the creation of the Fund to help the poor accountants, their widows and orphans. In the year, the Eliseevs was reorganized into the Eliseev Brothers Trading Joint-Stock Company, however, due to the contradictions, Alexander Eliseev abandoned his share, and Maria began to enter the leadership of the joint-stock company.

Gregory belonged to 48 percent of the stake, so to obtain most votes he always needed support for his wife. This marriage seemed happy and unanimous to outsiders. While the family company was experiencing heyday, the family itself began to crumble. In the family of Maria and Grigory Eliseev, five children grew - four sons and one daughter. Grigory Grigoryevich wanted his children to become continuers of his affairs, but the children, having received an excellent education, have interest in medicine, oriental studies, jurisprudence and art, and not in entrepreneurship.

In the year, Grigory decided to take a bold step and made his eldest son an offer to take a million rubles plus an unlimited loan and go to the United States of America to create a chain of Eliseev stores there. The eldest son, and then the next sons, abandoned his father’s offer. Eliseev, hoping to transfer the trading empire to the children, was upset and felt devoted.

Since the sons did not want to become the successors of the family business, Eliseev left them without a livelihood. Then Maria Andreevna intervened.

Supporting the sons in their search for themselves, she allocated the same amount of money from her capital that they received before. In the former unanimous union, a confrontation appeared. Gregory demanded obedience from Mary, forgetting, however, that his wife had the same complex character as himself. Eliseev even went to court, but lost, because the judge found that Maria has the right to dispose of her property as he wished.

The couple parted, and at first Mary did not disturb the infidelity of Gregory. On the grandiose celebrations of the flight of the company, which took place on October 22, not a single member of the family of Grigory Eliseev participated, and Maria only defiantly sent her husband a letter. It was on this fateful celebration that Grigory Grigoryevich Eliseev met Vera Fedorovna Vasilieva, who was 20 years younger than Eliseeva and was the wife of the owner of jewelry stores, a merchant of the second guild of Vasiliev.

Both fell in love with the ears. Rumors about her husband’s scam quickly reached Maria, and she presented her husband to immediately stop “shameful connection with a married woman”.As a straightforward entrepreneur, Gregory, in turn, asked Maria, offering a generous manual for a divorce, suggesting that the entrepreneur's wife would be satisfied with such a proposal.

Eliseev made a similar proposal to Vasily Vasiliev, who accepted him and divorced him. The stubborn and purposeful Maria suddenly found herself in a situation where her feelings for her husband were much stronger than she recognized. Maria refused a divorce, saying that she would not sell her love for any money, but rather die. Family quarrels and treason were shaken by Mary’s mental health, and after two unsuccessful suicide attempts, the mother of five children, remaining for a short time unattended, hanged herself.

Maria committed suicide on October 1. According to rumors, walking among the people, she hanged herself on her own spit. Children buried Maria Andreevna in the Eliseev family crypt in the Kazan Cathedral. Grigory Grigoryevich did not appear at the funeral. Three weeks after the funeral of Maria, Eliseev married Vera. Eliseev left the business and forever moved from Russia to France. He finally lost touch with his children, who abandoned both his father’s inheritance and hereditary nobility.

And although Eliseev was looking for reconciliation with his children until the end of his life, they could never forgive him the death of his mother. The empire, which, at the peak of its development, consisted of five department stores, the largest vineyards in Russia, the liquor-vodka plant, two confectionery factories and houses, disappeared. Thus, women have always played a fateful role in the formation and fall of empires.