KHLUDOV Ivan (1839 – 1868) – noted for the boldness and enterprise in the field of trade and industry. Educated in the St. Petersburg Peter and Paul School, J. in 1857 was sent to Bremen, where commercial practices entered the service in the office, which had extensive trade relations with all countries of the world, and through two years, went to England, in detail studied there the cotton market, he decided to start direct trade relations with America. In 1860, H. traveled the North American United States, studied on-site production of cotton and started relations with key U.S. trading houses, although the first suffered loss, and 3 million rubles. because the northern states, who were then at war with the southern, part of the confiscated, burned part of the purchased cotton. In an effort to bring Russian trade from the care of foreigners, H., in 1862, opened its trade office in the main cotton market – in Liverpool. When the expansion of our possessions in Central Asia Trade House Khludovs brothers took an active part in the Central Asian trade, X., leaving England, he went to Asia to explore new territory and establish direct trade relations with the East. Arriving in Samarkand, he vigorously set to work, but ill, died suddenly 29 years old. "Moscow", 1868, № № 108, 109 (obituary IA X-wa). – "Illustrated Newspaper", 1868, № 34 (obituary). – "The World Illustration", 1870, № 72. – Menologion "on 1869, p. 340.

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