Anikey Stroganov

Anikey Stroganov was the progenitor of the family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. He owned numerous slatterns in Solvychegodsk and Perm and has organized colonization of the basin of the Kama and Chusovaya Rivers.

Stroganov was born in Novgorod but soon after his births Stroganov's migrated to Solvychegodsk. Anikey’s brothers had no children and his father became a monk so he inherited his father’s large estates and saltworks. Anikey He improved and expanded his salt business and when his sons Yakov, Grigori and Semyon grew up, Anikey founded new salterns in the Kolskaya Guba. On his estates, given to him by Ivan IV, he developed farming, hunting, saltworks, fishing, and ore mining.

Beside his saltworks, Stroganov received the right to control the trade rules prescribed for English merchants, traveling from Arkhangelsk to Moscow, and to collect certain taxes in Solvychegodsk. He also established trade routes with the Siberian tribes.

The same as his father Anikey retired from the business world to become a monk under the name of Ioasaf.