the merchant of the first guild, the founder of the plant and the joint-stock company alexey kirillovich alchevskiyhe development of industry the russian empire at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries alexei alchevskiy is a symbolic figure, and among the major financiers and industrialists of that time, morozovsky tereshchenko ryabushinsky is absolutely extraordinary, having a reputation as a financial genius in terms of the size of his fortune at the beginning of the 20th century, alchevskiy was one of the ten richest people in russia, his assets were estimated a grandiose amount of 30 million rubles for this time. he created the first joint-stock mortgage bank and financial-industrial group in the empire, combining investment and production capital on with his own funds, alchevsk built the church of the hospital, the school for workers and their families, as a private person paid for the construction of the world's first monument to taras shevchenko, it was installed in his estate in kharkov in 1899 and man. whose name is today, the city of alchevsk in the lugansk people's republic in the story of