In the history of enterprise, Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato as Russian entrepreneur and diplomat (1839–1885).
Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato was born at Weimar in 1839. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class and Order of Saint Stanislaus, 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.
Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato died in 1885, aged 46. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
- Educated at Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University
