Monument VA Vsevolozhsky
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Monument VA Vsevolozhsky Vsevolozhsk opened in 2009 Vsevolod A. Vsevolozhsk was considered one of the richest men in Russia. It is also called "Petersburg Croesus." He was vice-governor of Astrakhan, chamberlain, a retired cavalry captain Guard, state councilor, organizer of the first ship in our country. As the owner of many enterprises, Vsevolozhsk paid great attention to new technologies: it has introduced sugar refining, manufacture of iron English way. He was the founder of Russia's first ironworks.

His land holdings VA Vsevolozhsk expanded, acquiring new estates and estates. In this way, in the early 19th century. his hands moved manor called Ryabovo with large surrounding territories. In this estate near St. Petersburg Vsevolod Andreyevich was invested a lot of funds and effort to change its status.

In the 18th century. In the place where today is located Vsevolozhsk, was Manor Ryabovo that Peter I gave AD Menshikov after the Northern War. In 1774-1779 gg. myzoy owned IY Fredericks, who was involved in the cheese here. In 1818 Ryabovo passed into the possession of the family VA Vsevolozhsk. Vsevolod Andreyevich continued to the last owner of the manor started reclamation works, spent gas lighting and built a sugar factory. On the bog ore mined here was based work ironworks, made tin and iron. In the workshops of the manor made agricultural tools, which subsequently recommended for use in many Russian provinces.

In areas in the estate it was laid out a huge garden and built a greenhouse grown vegetables, fruits, flowers and unusual unusual for northern latitudes, citrus, grapes and peaches, which were delivered to St. Petersburg. In Ryabovo they organized choir and serf theater. In the summer, it attracts all the aristocracy of the capital. Grange visited composers Alyabyev AA, MI Glinka, Verstovsky AN sculptor Tolstoy FP

When Vsevolozhsk Ryabovo learned not only in Russia but also abroad. Vsevolod Andreyevich on their lands widely introduced soil and irrigation system of artificial drainage. Last owners of the manor became the basis for the title in 1895, the railway station, and in the second half of the 20th century. - The city of Vsevolozhsk. The town is located in a river valley Lubián, in the place where Rumbolovskaya Koltushskoe height and approached each other. The youngest city of Leningrad region became a town February 1, 1963

Monument Vsevolozhsky installed at the intersection of Vsevolozhsk and Oktyabrsky Avenue, 500 meters from the railway station. The monument - architect E.Akopyan, sculptors Monochinskie, father and son. The idea of ​​the monument appeared in 2004, and the model of the monument completed in 2008. The monument was erected on the charitable funds.

Vsevolod Andreyevich appears in a raincoat and hat, leaning on a cane. The idea of ​​the authors, it looked so Vsevolozhsk, when I came here to inspect and acquire the land, who later became the village of Vsevolozhsk, and then the city of Vsevolozhsk.

In the future, according to the architect, it planned to overhaul abandoned building address, is the background of the monument. It is also planned to create on the opposite side of Vsevolozhsk prospectus musical fountains.

With the installation of the monument in Vsevolozhsk, a new tradition - anyone can write a letter with a request or wish to marital happiness Vsevolod Vsevolozhsky and drop it in the mailbox, located at a former address, located behind the monument.

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