How my beloved husband Adrian worked in the Soviet institutions (Central Bank, Gosplan, etc. in 1921-1930.

Makaryev's Fair (Makarevskaya Jarmarka) was the Greatest Fair in Russia held annually every July near Makaryev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga River from the mid-16th century to 1816. Following a massive fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod, but for some decades thereafter it still was commonly referred to as Makariev Fair. It attracted many foreign merchants all over the would.

See the post in this blog:

Makaryev's Fair ( Nizhny Novgorod Fair later) was the greatest Trade Fair in Imperial Russia.

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I participated in the reconstructionin in 1922 of the Historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair during the NEP (New Economic Policy) Era as a representative of the State Bank of Russia.

Nizhny Novgorod Fair was completely destroyed during the revolution and the sivil war in Russia (1917-1922). See the pictures below.

(1920)

(1922)

The terrible days comes after the Russian Revolution in Moscow. The Siberian Commercial Bank I worked in closed all its 70 offices all over the Russia. The Moscow office of the Bank was closed in February 1918.

See two posts in this blog:

1. My work in the Moscow branch of The Siberian Trade Bank next to the famous building of the Moscow Exchange.

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2. Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank in January 1917.

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My son Alexander was born on 05 February of 1918 too. It was terrible time.

In February 1918 the Bolsheviks were afraid of German attack on St. Petersburg and ran away to Moscow.  

The Bolsheviks established many new institutions in Moscow in thier attempt to govern the country. I tried to find any job in some of them. I changed a lot of places of employment.

I got a job in 1925 in the newly re-established by Bolsheviks State Bank of Russia finally.

The State Bank of Russia has provided great funds for reconstruction of the Historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair and I controlled the spending of this money.

The reconstruction of the Fair in 1922.

The main building of the Historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair after reconstruction in 1922.

The opening of the Historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair in 1922.

Some information is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev (1882-1954) – the mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.

The full text of diary is on :

opentextnn.ru/history/familisarchives/Timofeyevs_family_Archives/Adrian_Tim