Brick Manufacturing in the 18 century Russia

Bricks

Brick manufacturing and Brick Making in the 18th century Russia. Procurement of building materials is the most important task facing the organizer of stone construction work. The list of basic materials included: brick, lime, white stone, quarry, tiles, sand, clay, garter and circle wood, oak ties, beds, and “iron supplies.” We would probably now refer […]

History of Exchanges and Bourses in Russia (part 3)

Bourse

continued History of Exchanges and Bourses in Russia. Compared to other exchanges – either in Western Europe, in Paris and London, or in New York across the Atlantic, or in St. Petersburg, the small exchanges had no strict regulations for their listings. Additionally, due to the fact that the Russian merchants were a fragmented group, […]

Bourses and Exchanges in Russia (part 2)

Moscow I 1876

continued from Bourses and Exchanges: Russia’s third bourse, in Warsaw, was chartered in 1816. A small mercantile exchange was incorporated in the town of Kremenchug in a central part of Little Russia (Malorossia) in 1834 while Moscow’s exchange was a relative latecomer (still ahead of Zurich though). It appeared in 1837. Until the 1880s new […]