Eliseev Gastron Biography

The “Eliseevsky” store, famous throughout Russia, could have been called otherwise - “Kasatkinsky”, if it weren’t for the son of two tall young handsome men to his father, who, by his example and instructions, taught sons of hard work and thus brought them to people. In the glorification of their surname - Kasatkina, not genuine, but the name of the priest they called the business they founded in the general patronymic: "The Partnership of the Eliseev brothers." And the grandchildren secured the grandfather’s name in the memory of Russia, passing this name in two centuries to two stores, the most luxurious in the whole state and similar as the twin brothers, in St.

Petersburg and Moscow. And the third - in Kyiv, even when, after the revolution, not a single Eliseev remained in the trade business, their shops were popularly “Eliseevsky” - apparently, the walls also have memory. The portrait of the artist N. Argunov depicts Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev E years. He gave it free to his gardener Peter Eliseevich.

Portrait of Countess Praskovya Ivanovna Sheremeteva Unknown artist. The middle of the XIX century. Tverskaya Street in Moscow on those days when Eliseev’s store opened next to these houses. And today, in the house, the former Palace of Princess Beloselskaya -Belozerskaya, he is three -story, on the right in the photo, there is an Eliseevsky store, which has recently officially returned its historical name - now it is flaunting above the entrance.

And today, the Eliseevsky store is amazing with its luxurious interiors. To the right and left of him are the employees of the Moscow store Eliseev. In Soviet times, in Eliseevsky it was always not to push through. It all started with Count Sheremetev. His serfs were Kasatkins, as well as their relatives - Kuznetsov, Krasilshchikov, Kovalevs. The life of many of them developed surprisingly unusual.

The daughter of Ivan Kovalev, Praskovya, the beauty, whom God gave a marvelous voice, became the wife of Count Ober-Hoffmashal Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev. He surprised the whole of Petersburg, marrying his peasant woman, but he was in power to give, sell or exchange it. In the Sheremetev Theater, she wore a stage name - Zhemchugov, and became famous with him in both capitals.

The owner was proud of his actress, secretly loved her. However, the whole jacket knew about this - for several years the master and the serf artist lived in a non -detention. But when she suddenly began to fade, he called her in front of God and people a legitimate wife. It was then Parasha thirty years old, and at thirty -four she died. The count and the fortress actress were married on the eve of the Christmas of the year.

Since then, before every new year, Sheremetev came to the homeland of Praskovi Zhemchugovoy in his Rybinsk estate, where all the locals knew and remembered her. With a large company of friends and fans of the late wife, he came here to celebrate another Christmas. The first Eliseevs recalled this arrival of the count to their favorite estate all their lives, and the subsequent in all details passed the story about a long -standing event from generation to generation to festive evening Count Nikolai Petrovich and his guests were already sitting in the mirror hall at the table, when the gardener Peter Kasatkin unexpectedly entered his face.

He carried something in an outstretched hand that everyone who looked caused a delight: he held in a fierce Christmas frost on a saucer, as if he had just returned from the forest and put it in front of the count on the table. Count Nikolai Petrovich came first: - Peter Eliseevich, how did you retain such beauty? Kasatkin joked: - Yes, he collected.

We have a stranger. The first berry was taken by the most honorable guest, Princess Barbar Dolgoruky, and said with surprise: “Real!” And here is the green leaf! Real forest strawberries and I first thought that candy. Then they said: "Confect." Then he tried Count Sheremetev, they let the saucer in a circle. Men passed him to each other, and they first brought them to their ladies.

Everyone took the berry, admired the count's gardener. He pleased Barina very much! And he recklessly exclaimed: “I pleased, Peter Eliseevich!” Ask for what you wish. I will give everything for such respect! Kasatkin did not dare to look at the master, although he was preparing for the question in advance, but answered clearly so that everyone present was heard: - Give, the count, of course, it was an unheard of insolence: in the presence of respectable guests to catch the column on the word.

But the chief-hofmarsh did not give a look, which regrets to lose such a gardener about his recklessness! Only then, when parting, he showed offense, but now he answered cordially, generously: - I let you go, Pyotr Eliseevich. Of course, with his wife. The enthusiastic Princess Varvara Vladimirovna Dolgoruka seemed little to Dolgoruka. The guest added: - The count will probably give a hundred rubles in addition.

To acquisition. Sheremetev immediately called the manager and ordered a hundred rubles to count at all - huge money at that time! Fearing that the count can change his mind, Kasatkin, as soon as he straightened the papers, quickly gathered and left with his wife in a sanny train, which the Winter owner sent to St. Petersburg for "colonial goods".Pyotr Eliseevich and Maria Gavrilovna stopped at their village, who followed the city palace of Sheremetevs: it should always be clean and warm in case of an unexpected arrival of the owner.

The next morning we bought a bag of oranges, a wooden tray on the head and went to the people of Nevsky Prospekt. Maria Gavrilovna got up at the intersection with Sadovaya to guard the fruits in the bag until they need them, and Pyotr Eliseevich with a tray on his head filled with oranges, smiling towards a walking noble public, offering his unexpected piece sheal of a piece of wiring.

At first he was shy, but by the end of the day he learned to shout briskly, as if he himself was very glad: “Who wants to treat the lady orange? Kopeyka - what kind of money! Who will not regret a penny to please the lady with an orange? Some in their hands turned out to be a nickname in their hands, and since a warning seller immediately had a change, they showed his generosity for two kopecks.

But the buyers, Pyotr Eliseeva, handed it to two kopecks of the house. Gavrilovna to stand in a cold draft: Pyotra Eliseevich was recognized, they went out to Nevsky specially to surprise the companion with such beautiful white winter with an orange fruit, with an empty trap in his hand, Peter Eliseevich returned to Sadovaya, where his wife languished in anticipation. Yes, and she, overcoming embarrassment, began not only to stand with the goods, but gradually and shake.

Then we bought a second tray - for the wife. And Maria Gavrilovna went with him, also smiling, on the other side of Nevsky Prospekt in the summer, their small sons - Sergey, Grigory and Stepan, who had remained in the village with a grandmother Pelagia, arrived in St. Petersburg with fellow travelers. Having gotten up to St. Petersburg life, Maria Gavrilovna now insisted to call children.

Yes, they did not interfere. Especially the eldest, Sergey, who was already the thirteenth year. Everything went to start their own business. Graf Sheremetev learned about the successes of Peter Eliseevich from his janitor: the Barsky gardener got rich, opens his own business, became a Petersburg celebrity. About an entertaining person who received freedom thanks to strawberries, who had ripened in the greenhouse by Christmas, really fucked in rich houses, admired: he was gloriously invented to sell oranges in winter from a tray to his head!

For a whole year the family lived economically. In the corner that was removed for the shop, they took a small place for themselves. They didn’t buy anything superfluous - they took care of the money. Once after Christmas, at the intersection with Sadovka, which he and his wife chosen from the very beginning, Pyotr Eliseevich unexpectedly met with his former master-bore.

The count was sincerely delighted, began to ask that it was at Peter Eliseevich on his head. The recent serf told everything and, without removing a wooden tray from the head, added that he was collecting good money to pay off his brother, Grigory Eliseevich Kasatkin from the count. The count thought only a moment: - I believe that this is quite enough. Pyotr Eliseevich did not immediately realize that the words of the count mean consent, and when he realized, fell, to the surprise of passers -by, on his knees, began to look for the master’s hand to kiss.

Only then he noticed that Sheremetev was not alone. In the carriage, which stopped at Nevsky near Sadovaya and waited for the count, sat with a fur cavity sheltered by the fur and looked at what was happening Varvara Vladimirovna Dolgoruky, a year ago, the first one tasted a happy Christmas strawberry. Isn't it because the count was not repaired today, did not let himself persuade himself - he wanted to play the role of a benefactor to the end?

Just a month later, Grigory Eliseevich appeared in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg. He was dressed in a peasant, and Peter first led his brother to his new friend - tailor. The second case went to the halved, so that he would compose and beautifully write a petition about the establishment of the "Partnership of the Eliseev brothers." Then the historians of St. Petersburg argued with the relatives of the successful Eliseevs, when, in what year, a “partnership” was created and in which generation, believing that it was not at all Peter and Gregory, but with three sons of Peter Eliseevich, and only in the year.

The descendants in response asked: why, then, the centenary of the "Partnership of the Eliseev brothers" was celebrated in the year? Once, having waited in the morning, he took out the banknotes and silver and, together with his brother, they counted them twice in the evening of the banknotes did not flip out: some kind of unkind person can inadvertently see out the window and flatter someone else's money.