“A caravan stretched out along the road…”

On that spring day, there was a commotion in the building of the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee on Ilyinka. On April 12, 1910, representatives of as many as 73 firms from the Moscow Industrial District gathered here. This unusual meeting was chaired by a representative of the famous merchant dynasty, banker Pavel Pavlovich Ryabushinsky.
Most of those gathered were textile workers: the P.M. Ryabushinsky and Sons Manufactory Partnership, the Bogorodsko-Glukhovskaya Manufactory, the Nosov Brothers Manufactory Partnership, the Danilovskaya Manufactory, the manufactories of Emil Tsindel, Nikolai Konshin, Ludwig Rabenek, Albert Hubner, Ludwig Knop, Nikanor Derbenev’s sons, the Prokhorovskaya Trekhgornaya Manufactory, the Yokisha cloth manufactory and many others. There were also manufacturers of other goods: the company “Vogau and Co.”, the partnerships of M.S. Kuznetsov, P.I. Olovyanishnikov, the Krestovnikov brothers, Kolchugin, Sapozhnikov. In other words, the list of participants was quite solid.