Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov

Russian businessman

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1709

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1786

Profession: botanist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Prokofi Akinfiyevich Demidov (1710–1786) was a Russian industrialist and philanthropist. The eldest son of Akinfiy Demidov, Prokofi inherited the enormous Demidov family fortune on his father's death in 1745.
He gave freely to charitable works, founding an orphanage and a scientific institute in Moscow and a school of commerce in Saint Petersburg, as well as financing the opera in Saint Petersburg and hundreds of people's schools and philanthropic institutions across Russia. His eccentricities were famous and, because he thought he had been deceived by British merchants during a stay in England, one day he bought all the available hemp to "teach the English a lesson".
Even so, he managed to increase the family fortune so that, on his death, he owned 55 foundries and metallurgical factories.
His tomb is in the Donskoy Monastery. Demidov was interested in botany, wrote a treatise on bees, collected a herbarium, and had a number of birds caged in his house.
A catalogue of his plants was prepared by Peter Simon Pallas.
His manuscript of Kirsha Danilov's folk songs is preserved in the Russian National Library.



Alternative names	Dmitry Levitzky, Dmitrij Grigorievic Levickij, Dmitry Grigorievich Levitzky, ??????? ??????????? ????????
Description	Russian painter
Date of birth/death	1735	4 April 1822 (in Julian calendar)
Location of birth/death	Kiev	Saint Petersburg
Work location	Saint Petersburg, Moscow
Authority control	: Q556681 VIAF: 57427418 ISNI: 0000 0001 0975 7622 ULAN: 500120612 LCCN: n80128724 WGA: LEVITSKY, Dmitry Grigorevich WorldCat