Imperial Russia Czar Antique Huge Brass Jam Pan Kolchugino Factory late 1896

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Imperial Russia Czar Antique Huge Brass Jam Pan Kolchugino Factory late 1896:
$75.00

Massive 16\" Pre-revolutionary brass pan used for makingjam and sauce. This is genuine pre-Bolshevik16\"pan is stamped Kolchugina (Кольчугино) with Imperial medallions. 16 inch diameter; 4 inches tall. In very good vintage condition displaying afine patina with age and use-related marks. Great vintage items for the dachaor summer home!

Who was Alexander Kolchugin? He was a Moscow merchant of the second guild. From a long time we are unlikely to say, than the first merchant guild differed from the second. And there was also a third …And they differed in the size of the capital, which should be announced for entry into the guild. The applicant was believed, one might say, by the word, but the merchant’s word in this case did not overtake the matter. After all for the declared capital it was necessary to pay taxes and guild to submit at a rate of 1% of the sum of the capital.The size of the declared capital determined the scope of activity. The merchant class of the first guild possessed the widest rights for prerevolutionary Russia. Among these rights was the right of free movement around the country, the right to conduct foreign trade and possession of sea vessels. Merchants of the second guild had the right to own river vessels. Merchants of both the first and second guilds could be owners of factories and factories. The field of activity of the merchants of the third guild was petty trade, craft, the maintenance of inns and taverns.The merchant of the second guild AG Kolchugin was an active and enterprising person. The Kolchugin family has long been involved in the trade in copper and brass, and supplied wire and rolled metal from these metals to the market. In the last third of the XIX century, the demand for brass in Russia has risen sharply. Why? Because of the brass produced gun cartridges and capsules.Growth in demand drives the offer. Kolchugin decided to close his old plant in the Serpukhov area and open a new production facility in a new location. Such a place was found in the Vladimir province, where Kolchugin bought a paper-making factory near the village of Litvinovo, on the Belenka River.After the loan Kolchugin turned to one of the “subcontractors”, the trading house “Vogau and Co”, from whom he bought copper and brass for the former production. The company’s revenues were enormous. In 1882, her fixed assets exceeded £ 1 million and grew steadily. The company was the founder of several banks, had its own insurance company. So what’s the big question, who was the “subcontractor” from whom?The company agreed to give Kolchugin money even more than he asked. The loan of 100 thousand rubles Alexander Grigorevich received to create a modern (for those times) production with steam engines that powered the newest rolling mills. The creditors advised Kolchugin not to limit himself to the production of brass, but also to master the rental of sheets of copper. Copper sheets went to the manufacture of locomotive furnaces. Vogau knew the market better Kolchugin. Also the difference between the first and second merchant guilds.In 1876, the “Association of Brass and Copper-Rolling Plant Kolchugin.” A workers’ settlement grew up around the factories, which became known as Kolchugino. SamAG Kolchugin was the managing director of the company until 1886. In 1887 he left the board, sold him his share and more to the company he was not interested.Kolchugin’s activities were concentrated in Moscow. In 1888 he became the head of the board of the joint stock company “The Society of the Upper Trade Rows on Red Square in Moscow”. With his participation, an eclectic building in the pseudo-Russian style was built opposite the Kremlin, now called GUM. In 1890 AG Kolchugin headed the joint-stock company “Medium Trading Rows”. The facade of this building is just opposite the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed and looks directly at the Spassky Tower.The fate of the city and its founder dispersed, but the name still remains. And the smallness of the settlement protected him from further renaming. Moreover, already in the years of Soviet power, in 1931, the Kolchuginsky working town received the status of a city and was renamed Kolchugino.“Mederaskovochny and wire factory” in Kolchugino before the revolution was not the only one in its industry, but the best enterprise. He accounted for more than 60% of state orders for copper and brass products. Copper wire, which was catalysed at the plant, was in great demand in the developing electrical industry. A quality brass tape for cartridges at that time could only be rolled here.The plant also produced metal utensils. Beautiful, golden-colored samovars, teapots and dishes were obtained from a special kind of brass – tombak. Prior to the revolution, Russiancupholders , and the plant in Kolchugino was almost a monopolist in the production of these products, many surprising foreigners.The advantage of the plant was also its location near Moscow, which became the largest railway junction in the country. A branch line from the nearby Aleksandrov was stretched to the factory. There was no problem with the export of products, and the factory village as it approached Moscow.As Churchill once said, the socialists are also trying to nationalize what works well. Naturally, the Kolchugino plant was nationalized in the first year of the revolution, in the summer of 1918. It became known as the “First State Medical-Processing Plant”.But the range of production was not limited to copper alloys. The plant began to work for the aviation industry. In 1917, the German company Junkers (Junkers) began to produce all-metal aircraft from a new aluminum alloy, which was called duralumin. One of these planes landed in Soviet Russia.Metallurgical engineer VA Butalov carefully investigated the composition of duralumin, resulting in a similar aluminum alloy, differing from duralumin only with a high content of nickel. This alloy was called “chain mail”. Already in 1923 the plant began producing corrugated sheets of this metal, which immediately found application in the aviation industry. In 1925, the first ANT-2 experimental aircraft with a body and wings of Kolchugin aluminum took off.In the 1930s, alloys for the electrical industry were developed in Kolchugin. And in 1939 a separate cable plant was separated from the metallurgical production. During the war, as it often happened, the enterprise “multiplied”. Kolchugino plant was evacuated to the Urals and to Kazakhstan, where as a result of it five new plants were formed.All the years of its existence, for 130 years already, the Kolchugino non-ferrous metals plant was a city-forming enterprise. This meant that almost the whole population of the city worked at this plant. Virtually all of the city’s economy also belonged to the plant.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, little Kolchugin was blessed with great happiness. The plant survived, which means that the city, whose inhabitants proudly (or without pride) say of themselves: “We are the Kolchugins,” stayed afloat.
Relive the era of the CzarsNicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Николай II Алекса́ндрович, tr. Nikolay II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Revolution, the execution of political opponents and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War, he was given the nickname Nicholas the bloody by his political adversaries. Soviet historiography portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader, whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.
Russia suffered a decisive defeat in the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War, which saw the annihilation of the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima, loss of Russian influence over Manchuria and Korea, and the Japanese annexation of South Sakhalin. The Anglo-Russian Entente, designed to counter German attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, ended the Great Game of confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom. Nicholas approved the Russian mobilisation on 30 July 1914, which led to Germany declaring war on Russia on 1 August 1914. It is estimated that around 3,300,000 Russians were killed in the First World War. The Imperial Army\'s severe losses and the High Command\'s incompetent management of the war efforts, along with the lack of food and other supplies on the Home Front, were the leading causes of the fall of the House of Romanov dynasty.
Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son. Nicholas and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1918. On 30 April 1918, Nicholas, Alexandra and his mother Marie were handed over to the local Ural Soviet in Ekaterinburg; the rest of the captives followed on 23 May. With the approval of Lenin, Sverdlov and the rest of the top Bolshevik party leadership, Nicholas and his family were eventually executed on the night of 16–17 July 1918. The recovered remains of the Imperial Family were finally re-interred in St. Petersburg, eighty years to the day on 17 July 1998.
In 1981, Nicholas, his wife and their children were canonised as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, located in New York City.[9] On 15 August 2000 Nicholas and his family were canonised as passion bearers, a title commemorating believers who face death in a Christ-like manner,[11] by the Russian Orthodox Church within Russia.