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After the death of his brother Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev on October 29, 1801, Ekim Lazarevich became the owner of the Perm estate and factories. From March 6 to June 13, 1802, he and his son Ivan visited the estate, got acquainted with the factories and their problems.

Since 1807, the Perm estate of the Lazarevs began to be called the Chermoz mountain district. Under Ekim Lazarevich, the modernization of enterprises continued, new production facilities were introduced, and the range of products expanded. In 1804, wire production began at the Chermoz plant, in 1815, a steam engine for the sawmill was installed, and in 1817, the first nailer was installed. Not all initiatives took root at the plant, in particular, the production of cutlery, plumbing and surgical instruments, and smoldering steel. In 1825, the plant smelted 66.2 thousand pounds of cast iron and produced 86.1 thousand pounds of iron of various grades.

Joakim Lazarevich did a lot to improve Chermoz: he carried out a systematic development of the village with straight streets, built two-story stone houses according to the drawings sent, the building of the main plant administration, a residential building for the plant owner, a hospital and a pharmacy, laid out a large garden with a greenhouse and a rotunda with a picturesque view of the largest city. Ural pond with an area of ​​28 square versts. The construction of a stone church began according to the design of the serf architect I. M. Podyachev (mid-1780s, Fryanovo, Moscow province - ca. 1850), who was trained under the care of the Lazarevs in St. Petersburg, the author of many designs for buildings in the Lazarev estates, churches and buildings of the Kama region, the organizer of the architectural school in Chermoz, who received his freedom in 1835 after the Academy of Arts awarded him the title of free artist. The training of specialists for the enterprises of the district was carried out by I.L., founded in 1811. Lazarev in Chermoz district school. It was located in a specially built two-story building. The school was one of the best in the Urals. In 1820, 76 boys studied there. The nine-year course of study included geography, geodesy, mining mechanics, mineralogy, metallurgy, factory architecture and history, Latin, fundamentals of law and rhetoric. In 1812 in Chermoz, with the approval of I.L. Lazarev, a library society arose, uniting intellectual workers of the district. Using annual ten-ruble contributions from its members, it created a library. Then libraries were opened in the school, in the hospital and at the main plant.

Ekim Lazarevich introduced some innovations at the Khokhlovsky plant. Under him, instead of two old hammer factories, a new factory was built with 6 hammers and 8 forges, 4 double-spirited cylindrical cast-iron bellows. However, these innovations did not lead to a significant increase in iron production. In order to increase the productivity of the Polazninsky plant, I.L. Lazarev in 1810 built two miles downstream of the river. Polazny Nizhnepolaznensky (Mariinsky) ironworks with its dam and carving and flattening mill for the processing of iron from the Polaznensky plant, mainly into rods and tires.

Since 1812, 68-year-old Ekim Lazarevich left the management of the Perm estate, transferring affairs to his 23-year-old son Christopher Ekimovich.

In 1821, Ekim Lazarevich Lazarev drew up the so-called “separate act”, in which he decided on the fate of his nine million dollar fortune. According to this act, for 6 years all real estate was to be in the undivided possession of his sons. Lazarev Khristofor Ekimovich was appointed chief manager of the property.

Institute of Oriental Languages Wanting to fulfill his brother’s will, Ekim Lazarevich took as a basis the already drawn up project of the educational institution. The only change made to it concerned an increase in the number of students (up to 40 students) and teachers (up to 3-4 experienced teachers). The curriculum included theological and philosophical sciences, as well as in-depth study of languages ​​- Armenian, Russian, Latin and one of the new foreign languages ​​[1]. It was planned to open it in New Nakhichevan.

However, by 1810 Ekim Lazarevich changed his mind, firmly deciding to found an Armenian educational institution in Moscow. He planned to give away part of the Lazarevs’ property in Stolpovoy (Armenian) Lane for it. Subsequently, the director of the Lazarevsky Institute G.I. Kananov assessed this step as a well-thought-out decision: “Contrary to the opinion of those who blame the founders for the mistake of establishing an institution for Armenian natives not close to their places of residence, we see in this choice the main and happiest condition for its strength and prosperity... Meanwhile, Moscow met all the requirements at once. For a long time there had been a significant colony of Armenians in it... But moreover, as the center of Russian education, with its famous University, it opened up all the ways for the best development of any educational institution. Regarding the students of the institution founded by the Lazarevs, she represented another undervalued condition: she introduced them to the language, life, and customs of that society and state, of which they were to become fellow citizens over time” [2].

The founding of a school for Armenian children became a common family affair for the Lazarevs. In a letter to his sons Ivan and Christopher, Ekim Lazarevich wrote with extreme concern: “This is an important matter, useful and national... The whole world is looking at us. Perhaps, having started a business and incurring costs, we will not be able to complete it and among peoples and nations, our own and others, we will disgrace ourselves” [3].

Wanting to speed things up, E.L. Lazarev decided to allocate over 300 thousand rubles for the construction of the building and its first installation. In one of the letters, Ekim Lazarevich wrote: “...I collected that amount in the first four years of entering into the inheritance and contributed it to the St. Petersburg Board of Trustees as intended. And from the interest received over time, due to the lack of it, with the addition of more than one hundred thousand rubles from myself, I built a stone building in Moscow, on a place that belonged to me, with the approval of the authorities, according to a plan approved by him. ” [4]

Having collected the necessary amount, Ekim Lazarevich plunged into the troubles associated with designing the school building, as well as finding teachers. The archives preserved plans and drawings of the project for the facade of the school building, dated 1810 [5]. On one of the drawings of the portal of the main building there is an inscription: “1810 Mayan day Armenian educational institution. Dependent on Messrs. Lazarevs" [6].

As for the search for teachers, not finding them in the Caucasus, Ekim Lazarevich decided in 1811 to turn to the head of the Venetian Mekhitarists with a request to recommend two learned monks for the future Armenian school.

For Lazarev, this was a rather bold step, given the tense relations that had developed between the Armenian Gregorian, Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. However, E.L. Lazarev wrote: “...in science, religion is not taken into account, but only an educated person is required, knowledgeable in honest rules and morality. This is what educated and enlightened peoples do, in whose universities professors of completely different religions often give lectures, and in the temple of science they are not at all required to have one specific religion” [7].

Preparations for the opening of the school were interrupted by the Patriotic War of 1812. During the occupation of Moscow by French troops, the Lazarevs' house on Myasnitskaya Street, as well as the warehouses of the Fryanovskaya manufactory on Pokrovka, were looted and burned. An extensive library, a collection of paintings, and antique furniture were destroyed in the fire in the mansion; Large stocks of silk fabrics burned in warehouses. In total, the Lazarevs suffered losses amounting to half a million rubles [8].

At the same time, the Lazarevs took part in the formation of the militia at their own expense, and their factories in the Urals fulfilled large orders from the War Ministry on time. The colossal destruction caused by the Moscow fire, surprisingly, did not affect the Lazarevs’ property in Armenian Lane, where Ekim Lazarevich planned to erect a school building. In the “Materials for the history of the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages” the following legend is given: “It is noteworthy that opposite, near the Lazarev Institute, near the buildings of the Armenian Confession of the Church, in the house of the Lazarevs, which belonged during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, to his favorite, Boyar Artamon Matveev, lived in 1812 French well-meaning General; how he, and even more closely the Emperor Napoleon, one of the Armenians, the beloved Mameluke Rustan, asked Napoleon for a command that the entire block, from Pokrovka to Myasnitskaya Street, and everything that belonged to the Armenian Church, be preserved and not exposed to flames, for which there were orders and military French guards, which was observed until the French left. But when suddenly the French came out and when the General had already left, then the French and others began to set fire to the houses of this quarter, but the zeal and vigilance of some Armenians staying in Moscow at that time and other neighbors averted the disaster of the fire, and this was the only way that this part of the ancient Capital was saved” [9 ].