The Odessa Stock and Commodity Exchange

The Odessa  Сommodity  Exchange was one of the oldest Exchanges in Russia.  It was founded  in 1796. 

This is a picture of old Odessa  Сommodity  Exchange building.  This  building was constructed in  neoclassical style and was located on the seaside boulevard. 

The building of the "New Merchants Exchange." Photographic postcard of the early XX century

It is noteworthy that the exchange was established in Odessa at the request of the foreign merchants. Meetings were held daily from 10 to 12 hours. To observe the procedure on the Stock Exchange was attended by Chief of Police. Three decades was enough to speculators raised the question of its own building, which quickly built. But the new building did not satisfy the gathering, as the room side by side with other exchanges urban institutions. Their work was fettering the activities of speculators. With the bond issue was proposed to raise money to build a new exchange of Odessa. It was laid in 1894 at the corner of Pushkin Street and the Police. The cost of construction was about 800,000 rubles.

On the Stock Exchange trade at Odessa is little known. In the memoirs of contemporaries, almost nothing is said of the passions in the trading of securities.

The building of the "New Merchants Exchange" now.

The interrogation in the court after my jail in the Kiev’s Lukyanivska prison after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries. Mrs. Yulia Tymoshenko is the most famous prisoner in Lukyanivska prison now.

 I was arrested in Kiev on  04   December 4, 1905. I was arrested at the Congress of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries party.

All Russian Revolutionaries were very encouraged  and feel them more free after the Imperial Manifesto of October 17.

The  armed insurrection began at this time in Moscow.

There were only three political prisoners at the time of our arrest in the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison.

The general view of Lukyanovka (Lukyanovskaya prison in Kiev, Ukraine)  during my imprisonment.

My jail in the Kiev’s Lukyanivska prison after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries. Mrs. Yulia Tymoshenko is the most famous prisoner in Lukyanivska prison now.

 I was arrested in Kiev on  04   December 1905. I was arrested at the Congress of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries party.

All Russian Revolutionaries were very encouraged  and feel them more free after the Imperial Manifesto of October 17.

Ilia Perin's picture "Manifesto of October 17".

The  armed insurrection began at this time in Moscow.

There were only three political prisoners at the time of our arrest in the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison. The prison was overcrowded after our arrests. We organized a boycott of the prison’s Chief Mr. Malitsky for  his abuse of prisoners.

After his appearance in any of the prison cells we began to shout “You are the murderer and  executioner! Get out!”.
Some  information of this post is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich  Timofeev(1882-1954) - mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.
The full  text of diary  (in Russian) is on
http://opentextnn.ru/history/familisarchives/Timofeyevs_family_Archives/Adrian_Timofeev

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The interrogation in the  court after my  jail in  the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison   after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries.

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