Nikolay Vereshchagin

Russian entrepreneur

In the history of enterprise, Nikolay Vereshchagin is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Nikolay Vereshchagin as Russian entrepreneur.

Nikolay Vereshchagin was born at Cherepovetsky Uyezd in 1839. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Naval Cadet Corps.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as entrepreneur.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

Recognition followed: Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class.

That the business was built from Russia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Nikolay Vereshchagin died in 1907, aged 68. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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