Glazunov Family, booksellers and publishers

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GLAZUNOV FAMILY, booksellers and publishers. The Glazunov Company was founded by Matvey Petrovich Glazunov (1757-1830) who had a bookshop in Moscow and started a bookselling business in St. Petersburg in 1783-84, which was run by his brother Ivan Petrovich Glazunov (1762-1831, St. Petersburg). The latter started his own business in 1785 to become a book publisher in 1790 and open his own printing house in 1803. He was also an agent of Princess E. R. Dashkova from the 1790s and worked for the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences from 1827. Glazunov was buried at Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery. His son Ilya Ivanovich Glazunov (1786, St. Petersburg - 1849, St. Petersburg) succeeded him. Graduating from the Academic Gymnasium, he received hereditary honorary citizenship in 1832. He specialised in publishing works by Russian writers and worked as a teacher of literature in the 1840s. He was also chairman of St. Petersburg Merchants' Council in the 1840s. He was buried at Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery. After his death the company was run by his son Ivan Ilyich Glazunov (1826, St. Petersburg - 1889, St. Petersburg) for 40 years. The latter combined business activities and public service by serving as a member of the City Duma in 1852-81 and as Mayor in 1881-85 and simultaneously served on the board of the State Bank, elected by the merchants in 1861. He also served as director of the City Credit Society, and a member of the Council of the St. Petersburg Commercial School. Glazunov was the director of St. Petersburg Charity House from 1866 and a member of the Trade and Manufactory Council of the Ministry of Finance. Entitled to hereditary nobility for his service in 1870, he was also granted the rank of Actual Civil Counsellor in 1885. He was buried at the St. Sergius Holy Trinity Monastery. His brothers Konstantin (1828-1914), composer A. К. Glazunov's father, and Alexander (1829-1896) also engaged in the company activities, the latter starting his own business soon afterwards. They both received hereditary nobility in 1882 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the company. A successor to and the son of Ivan Ilyich Glazunov, Ilya Ivanovich Glazunov (1856-1913) graduated from the St. Petersburg Commercial School in 1873 and, together with Konstantin Ilyich, transformed the company into I. Glazunov Trading House in 1890 to own it on a partnership basis. Ilya Ivanovich was repeatedly elected a member of the City Duma from 1881. Mikhail Konstantinovich Glazunov (1870-?) took an active part in the business from the 1890s. He graduated from St. Petersburg Commercial School in 1889 and attended classes at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University. He ran his business together with Alexander Ilyich Glazunov, Ilya Ivanovich's son, from 1914. The company published about 900 works in 135 years, mostly by Russian writers and poets, as well as manuals and scientific papers. The Glazunov Company was located at 6, 8, and 10 Kazanskaya Street, and accommodated a printing house, a type-foundry, a book-stitching workshop, and a bindery. The main stores were located at 20 Sadovaya Street and 27 Nevsky Prospect from 1900. The Glazunov family's property was nationalised after October 1917.

Reference: Краткий обзор книжной торговли и издательской деятельности Глазуновых за 100 лет, 1782-1882. СПб., 1903; Лисовский Н. М. Краткий очерк столетней деятельности типографии Глазуновых в связи с развитием их книгоиздательства, 1803-1903. СПб., 1903; Зайцева А. А. Новые материалы о петербургском книготорговце и издателе И. П. Глазунове // Книгопечатание и книжные собрания в России до середины XIX века: Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1979. С. 76-97; Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986. С. 89-93; Богданов И. А. Большой Гостиный двор в Петербурге. СПб., 2001.

V. S. Solomko. Dashkova Ekaterina Romanovna, Duchess
Glazunov Alexander Ilyich
Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich
Glazunov Ilya Ivanovich
Glazunov Ilya Ivanovich
Glazunov Ivan Ilyich
Glazunov Ivan Petrovich
Glazunov Konstantin Ilyich
Glazunov Matvei Petrovich
Glazunov Mikhail Konstantinovich
the Glazunovs
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Kazanskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Краткий обзор книжной торговли и издательской деятельности Глазуновых за сто лет, 1782-1882. СПб., 1903
Зайцева А. А. Новые материалы о санкт-петербургском книготорговце и издателе И. П. Глазунове // Книгопечатание и книжные собрания в России до середины XIX века: Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1979 Russian Academy of Sciences
Academic Gymnasium
City Duma
State Bank
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Finance
Holy Trinity & St. Sergius Hermitage
State University, St. Petersburg