Biography in Lapshin

Lapshin Vasily Fedorovich merchant, public figure, large philanthropist. One of the largest merchants of the city in its entire history, a well -known public figure, a large philanthropist, Lapshin was primarily remembered as the founder of one of the largest shipping companies on the Volga - Rus and as the mayor of Tsaritsyn. The beginning of the path of Lapshin was born in a year in a merchant family.

In the middle of the 19th century, the older brothers moved to the city of Makaryevsk of the Kostroma province, where they founded confectionery production and trade in colonial goods. Vasily did not follow the brothers, remaining in Tsaritsyn with a small amount of money. Vasily invested his small amount in a small business. Purchasing sweets in bulk, he wrapped each of them on a wrap on his own and sold at a higher price.

In addition, he was engaged in reselling matches and worked as a lubricant on the Volga-Don Railway. Starting trade affairs in the fall of the year, Lapshin was already by the beginning of the x. Lapshin is a noticeable entrepreneur in the city. In the year, he was elected vowel of the district Zemstvo assembly, and already in May - Tsaritsyn's city head. One of the first decisions made by the City Duma under his leadership is the completion of the bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral, for which rubles are allocated from the city budget on August 31.

Decisions are made to improve the organization of fire fighting in Tsaritsyn. In September, a decision was made to replace the old old firefighter Kalanchi and all adjacent buildings with a new, stone building still standing in the city center. Horses for fire brigades are purchased. Work begins to improve the sanitary condition of the city. In the city during this period, a telephone network arises and begins to develop, and large stone construction is underway.

In January, Lapshin resigned from the post of mayor. After the election of the new composition of the City Duma, the vowels of the Duma again elect Lapshin to the position of the mayor. He again holds this position since July in the second period of the reign of the city Lapshin is actively dealing with the construction of the city water supply. Lapshin leaves the head of his head of his own free will.

During this period, Lapshin occupies many other public posts. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Mariinsky Gymnasium, a member of the county submarine, a member of the county school council, chairman of the orphan court, a member of the guardian council of a children's orphanage for girls, chairman of the Tsaritsyn Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Popular Labor in memory of the Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

For five years, Lapshin headed the city public bank, the Tsaritsyn Society of mutual loan, and in the city of guarding the craft school created in Tsaritsyn, Lapshin created to help poor listeners a special “fund of the hereditary honorary citizen of Tsaritsyn V. Lapshin”, transferred to them at the disposal of the city council. In addition, he contained a school for boys. Lapshin dreamed of building a university in Tsaritsyn for almost his whole life and was busy with the transfer of the Warsaw University to Tsaritsyn.

Warsaw University was really transferred - to Saratov. Trading activities of V. Lapshin's trading activity are diverse no less than public. He owned a gastronomic and grocery store with his own confectionery, contained a hotel, kerosene tanks with buildings, he bought in the city of Lapshin trades with oil products, forest, iron, bread, vodka, grocery goods, shafts and resin. His plans included the construction in the city of a perfume factory and the piano production factory.

In the city, work was performed manually, the number of workers was 74 people. Products found their sales in the regions of the Lower Volga and Don, and also purchased by state associations, Central Asian Emirates - Kokand and Bukhara, Principality of Transcaucasia. By the year, the number of homeless workers was reached by a person. Lapshin also created two sawmill and woodworking plants, owned iron warehouses and tin products.

In the year, Lapshin opens the main enterprise of his life - the ship's society "Rus". Sirotkin he will not remain in the matter and the Tsaritsyn - V. Lapshin, I. Startsev, etc., the management of the new company becomes the T. means invested in the case, made it possible to create a whole fleet of 30 ships, 80 marinas and a large number of port warehouses. The company operated both regular passenger and commodity flights between all large marinas on the Volga, Kama, Oka, Moscow River and Caspian-to Baku.

For even greater acceleration of growth in the year, the partnership is transformed into a joint -stock company. The charter of the company, approved on February 5, involves the "transportation of passengers and goods along the Volga River and its tributaries, as well as on the Caspian Sea." In the year, the ship company "Rus" was nationalized. Her former ships continued to swim for many more years.

It is known that the latter of them were operated before the beginning of the 10ths. The latest steamer of the company is launched in the year “A.Meshchersky ”, subsequently renamed the“ hero ”, was withdrawn from the fleet only in the year. Personal life Lapshin’s personal life was quite complicated. Somewhere at the end of the year. Lapshin marries Praskovye Ivanovna Karpakova. Daughter, Olga Vasilievna Lapshina, in the year, marries the Tsaritsyn merchant I.

Bogatenkov, on the occasion of the engagement of which on January 30, G. The sacrament was performed by the famous Archpriest Fr. Flegmatov, and in the cathedral on the occasion of such a significant event, two choirs - the Assumption Cathedral and the Preobrazhenskaya Church. The son of Nicholas, who graduated from the Alexander Gymnasium and gave great hopes, died on October 2 from the consumption of consumption several years later and the eldest son, Vasily.

He died on July 21. Vasily Fedorovich and wife survived. She died on September 18. In memory of his wife, Lapshin builds in Beketovka, with his sawmill, the Church of St. Paraskeva preserved and until now, which is solemnly consecrated on October 14, Alexander - Alexander, born late, in the year, managed to serve as the director of the board of the Shipping Company "Rus", become famous as a philanthropist and patron of culture.

In the year, he bought himself a car - one of the first in Tsaritsyn.

However, this son died before his father. He married the daughter of a successful Moscow merchant, but the marriage ended in failure. This was the last son of Vasily Fedorovich. Presumably, it was on the territory of this garden that Lapshin arranged a tram-cover, the only tram on electric traction in Tsaritsyn in Tsaritsyn in the city of Tsaritsyn The end of life despite the tragic circumstances, V.

Lapshin continues to do business, although he gradually departs, by virtue of his age, from social activity. After G., with the outbreak of World War II, many questions are aggravated, and after the revolution - everything goes “sloping”. In the year, all property of V. Lapshin is nationalized. Lapshin himself is arrested and contained for some time on a barge-a floating prison standing at the mouth of the queen, where almost all more or less rich citizens were sent.

However, Lapshin is released and he spends the last months of his life in one of the houses of the third part of the city.