Where are you, the Rastorguevs" Solyanka Street
Author: Shalaev Alexey
canvas/oil 24cm x 18cm 2024
The artwork is framed
Agree, Rastorguev is a sonorous surname for a merchant. An apartment building with Atlanteans on the Solyanka of the successor of the famous merchant dynasty of tea merchant Alexei Rastorguev. The family is known for active charity, they built and maintained temples, supported the trustee society for the help of convict children, financed the militia during the Crimean War of 1852-1856. The Rastorguyevo railway station of the Ryazan-Ural road is located on land formerly owned by the Rastorguyevs (more than 9 hectares), and donated by them to the treasury.