Entrepreneurship in the Sarepta colony of the Tsaritsy district of Saratov province modern Volgograd

The Sarepta colonists showed great enterprise in economic affairs. In the description of the Saratov region for 1782, it is said about Sarepta that there are all kinds of craftsmanship, and especially factories of paper semi-silk scarves, a tannery, saw and grain mills and shops with all sorts of goods. According to the data for 1804, there were already 25 weaving and knitting machines in Sarepta, and according to the statement for 1814, there were 5 public and 3 private paper manufactories, including knitwear production with 58 machines and 66 hired workers. In 1814 they produced 28,269 pieces of semi-silk shawls and 16,344 arshins of sarpinka. Since 1810, Sarepta began to produce a new paper fabric - sarpinka, which is in great demand. Entrepreneurial colonists organized in Sarepta the manual production of silk head scarves, which were widely sold. The successful development of manufactories in Sarepta is due primarily to the use of free labor on them, and of course thanks to the benefits that the colonists enjoyed, exempted from many duties and taxes. Sarepta was the first to breed domestic mustard. In 1798-1799. The Free Economic Society of Russia sent seeds to Sarepta for trial sowing. In 1801 Contrad Neitz set up a manual oil mill in Sarepta, and for the first time samples of the obtained oil and powder were sent to St. Petersburg. Reviews of the first mustard products came commendable. At first, mustard seeds were given to peasants free of charge, with an obligation to return them from the harvest, and the resulting crop was purchased from the peasants. Mustard did not immediately become a food crop, at first it was used as a medicine against diseases. In 1807, the Sarepta mustard and oil mill was built, and a little later, another one. These were the first mustard processing plants in Russia. In addition to mustard factories, there were breweries, candle and soap factories, a bakery with gingerbread and confectionery production, a steam chemical laboratory for the production of vodka, essential mustard oil and other products, a tannery, pottery and brick factories, metalwork, blacksmith, weaving, hosiery and others in Sarepta. workshops. “Sareptinsky balsam“ was very popular. He gained fame in 1830, when cholera raged everywhere, claiming thousands of lives, and there was not a single disease in Sarepta. The Sarepta Tobacco Factory was also widely known. She received raw materials from her tobacco plantation and from the United States. It was the only tobacco factory that produced tobacco from the lowest to the highest grades. The factory operated until 1870. In addition, the inhabitants of Sarepta were engaged in stuffing stuffed birds and delivered them to many countries. “Sarepta gingerbreads”, prepared on watermelon honey nardeke, were in great demand. サレプタの入植者たちは、経済問題において素晴らしい事業を示しました。 1782年のサラトフ地方の記述では、サレプタについて、あらゆる種類の職人技、特に紙の半絹のスカーフの工場、皮なめし工場、製材所、製粉所、あらゆる種類の商品を扱う店があると言われています。 1804年のデータによると、サレプタにはすでに25台の織機と編機があり、1814年の声明によると、58台の機械と66人の雇用労働者によるニット製品の生産を含め、5つの公的および3つの民間の製紙工場がありました。 1814年に、彼らは28,269個のセミシルクのショールと16,344個のサルピンカのアルシンを生産しました。 1810年以来、Sareptaは新しい紙織物であるsarpinkaの生産を開始しました。これは大きな需要があります。 サレプタの起業家の入植者は、広く販売されていたシルクのヘッドスカーフの手作業による生産を組織しました。サレプタでの工場の開発の成功は、主にそれらの工場での自由労働の使用によるものであり、もちろん、入植者が多くの義務と税金を免除されて享受した利益のおかげです。 Sareptaは国産マスタードを最初に繁殖させました。 1798年から1799年。ロシアの自由経済協会は、試験播種のために種をサレプタに送りました。 1801年、コントラッドネイツはサレプタに手動の石油工場を設立し、得られた石油と粉末のサンプルが初めてサンクトペテルブルクに送られました。最初のマスタード製品のレビューは称賛に値するものでした。当初、マスタードシードは農民に無料で与えられ、収穫から返還する義務があり、得られた作物は農民から購入されました。マスタードはすぐに食用作物にはなりませんでした。最初は病気の&