Rakhmanovs: merchant Old Believers, philanthropists and collectors

The book written by a famous researcher of the history and culture of the Old Believers of Elena Mikhelovna Yuhimenko, talks about the merchant Rhodes of Rachmanov, who lived in Moscow from the end of the 18th century. For the first time on the basis of archival and memoir sources, the history of seven generations of this family was restored, not only successful entrepreneurs, but also benefactors, workers of old-believe, collectors, scientists. The biographical narration is associated with the presentation of important historical events and characteristics of a wide range of communication of Rachmanov, which was such well-known people as the publisher and patron of K.T. Soldatenkov, Old Believer Archbishops Moscow Anthony and John, Historians V.O. Klyuchevsky and M.M. Bogoslovsky, biologist I.I. Mechnikov, Geophysic E.E. Leist, art historian p.p. Muratov. The publication is illustrated by photos from the family archives of the descendants of Rachmanov.
Elena Mikhailovna Yuhimenko - Doctor of Philological Sciences, Chief Researcher, Department of Manuscripts of the State Historical Museum. Its fundamental studies about the history and culture of the Old Believers are the most detailed and full source. "Rachmanov: Museum-Old Believers, benefactors and collectors" talk about the merchant genus Rachmanov, contains many historical data, excerpts from the memoirs of family members, extensive illustrative material