A
young province of Russia in effective range
of the residences and metropolis of St Petersburg - Leningrad ' vol: 1
by Erik Amburger published 1980 Bohlau Publishing, Cologne and Vienna -
found by Dr. Eric Hall.
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We remain on the Neva in order to discover
the developments of the subsequent years. It could not be ascertained
when the Britisher, Thomas Wright, who in 1839 had founded a cotton
spinning factory on the Schusselburg road at Smolenskoe in the Spasski
township of St. Petersburg, had moved; at any rate it happened before
1851; probably he used the nearest buildings which were described in
the same article as a spinning mill, until in1856 he leased the
buildings of the former pottery of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. In
1852, with his son and brother, and another local man, he laid the
foundations for a factory for the company of the same name, for which
the shares were soon acquired by the Moscow trading house of Chiudev
& Co. In 1862 they also bought the estate (land). But when in
1871 an additional weaving mill was built and the name of the
corresponding company was proved, it was found that the majority of the
shares were already in the hands of the Hubbard family
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On the right bank, next arose a couple of
firms that gave that piece of riverbank opposite the porcelain factory
a completely new look. In 1840 the businessman John Gaubert and Paul
Vargunin founded there the papermill of GAUBERT & VARGUNIN 261
(since the middle 1850s, Vargunin Brothers) and in 1841 the Britisher
James Thorton founded the cloth factory Thornton. Both firms grew very
quickly and led to the settlement of numerous workers immediately by
the factory in workers barracks or in neighbouring properties. The
papermill was in 1871 ' The Company of Nevski Papermill of the brothers
Vargunin ' then in 1905 one only finds a member of the family as
director and in 1910 the company went into bankruptcy; a new joint
stock company acquired the factory. As for the Thorton factory, the
founder slaved away, in 1866 with his sons, at the family business and
of this organisation nothing had changed until 1917 - 18. This firm is
still registered on the map of 1852. John Gaubert British subject may
have been originally the papermaster when he is buried in 1860 (62 yrs)
in Tzarkaya Slavenka just as is his son in 1885 where there were
several paper mills in the neighbourhood; in 1857 he was co - founder
of the paper making company of Uglich.
