Tver Paper Manufacturing Company

Description

In May 1859, the 89-year-old founder of the famous Russian dynasty of merchants and large industrialists Morozov, Savva Vasilyevich Morozov, with the youngest of his five sons, Timofey, established the “Partnership of the Tver Manufactory of Paper Products” with a fixed capital of 600 thousand rubles.

The textile production itself, bought out by the Morozovs, was founded in 1856-58. Moscow merchants S. M. Shibaev, I. V. Mityushin, V. I. Bryzgalin, V. Zalogin and N. I. Kaulin on the lands of the Assumption Zheltikov Monastery, located on the right bank of the Volga tributary of the Tmaka River, which flows into it in the center of modern Tver. To the initially erected spinning production, mechanical weaving, bleaching and dyeing and finishing factories were soon completed. In 1861, the fixed capital of the Partnership reached 900 thousand rubles. In 1872, the ownership of the Tver manufactory passed to the grandson of the founder of the Morozov dynasty, Abram Abramovich, who significantly expanded the spinning and weaving production of the family enterprise. Through the efforts of Varvara Alekseevna, the wife of A. A. Morozov, in the last years of her husband’s life, who actually managed the factory alone, a number of charitable institutions were built: a hospital, a pharmacy, a maternity shelter, an orphanage, a nursery, a charity home, an almshouse, a vocational school, a library etc.

Under the son of A. A. and V. A. Morozov, Ivan Abramovich, the production of the Tver paper products manufactory continued to expand. In the 1890-1900s. brick multi-storey barracks and public buildings were erected. At the turn of the century – the People’s Theater with steam heating, electric lighting, an auditorium with two lights with choirs on cast-iron columns, a stage with a hold and a lift for scenery and restrooms for artists located under it. After a severe fire in 1902, the workshops and other buildings had to be rebuilt according to more modern designs.

The production facilities of the Partnership of the Tver Paper Products Manufactory were nationalized by the Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR of June 28, 1918 and renamed the Tver Proletarian Manufactory (Proletarka). Despite the fact that the textile production itself has long been stopped, people still continue to live in the barracks and residential buildings of the former Tver manufactory. In Soviet times, this area of ​​Tver was called the “Courtyard of the Proletarka”, in common people it is still called the “Morozov town” (Source: Wikipedia)