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Demidov (Russian: Деми́дов) is a town and the administrative center of Demidovsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kasplya River at its confluence with the Gobza River. Population: 7,333 (2010 Russian census); 8,786 (2002 Census); 10,198 (1989 Soviet census). It was previously known as Porechye (until 1918).
The House of Demidov ( Russian: Деми́довы) also Demidoff and Dimidov, was a prominent Russian noble family during the 18th and 19th centuries. Originating in the city of Tula in the 17th century, the Demidovs found success through metal products, and were entered into the European nobility by Peter the Great.
Demidov is a town and the administrative center of Demidovsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kasplya River at its confluence with the Gobza River. Population: 7,333 (2010 Census); 8,786 (2002 Census); 10,198 (1989 Census). It was previously known as Porechye.
The Demidov family was a dynasty of Russian industrialists and landowners who, in the 18th and 19th centuries developed the Ural region, setting up iron foundries and arms factories and building whole cities around their ventures.
The legacy of Russian theater teacher, director and scholar Nikolai Demidov (1884–1953) compares with the groundbreaking revelations of men and women of science. The Demidov School of Theater brought forth the primacy of creative perception in the actor’s art.
Vol. xxvi, Nos. 2 & 3 The Demidov Empire | 183 entrepreneurship in early Imperial Russia. This study aims to determine the impact of the state on the greatest industrial empire of eighteenth-century Russia. During the formative years of the Demidov empire, state support and intervention were to prove absolutely essential, while the acquisitive ...
Pavel (called Paul) Nikolaievich Demidov (Russian: Павел Николаевич Демидов; 6 September 1798 Saint Petersburg - 25 March 1840 Mainz) was a Russian nobleman of the Demidov dynasty, philanthropist and industrialist.
