Enterprisership of Decembrist A.V. Poggio in Siberia There are some questions connected to Decembrist enterprisership in Siberia

There have been shown reasons for the example of a prominent Decembrist A.V. Poggio (1798 - 1873), making the Decembrists to invest their rather small capital in search for gold and gold mining, methods of organization of gold mining companies and the actual results of their activities. 30 - 40 years of the XIX century are known to so-called «Gold Rush» in Siberia i.e. the mass psychosis, or in other words - passion for searching and placer gold mining resulting in which some miners got rich quickly. The main idea of people who decided to go in for searching gold was to provide their own economic independence and the independence of the children born in Siberia. One of them was already mentioned A.V. Poggio. He married a classy lady of the Maiden Irkutsk institute Larisa Andreyevna Smirnova. In 1854 they had a daughter Barbara and a 56-year old father worshiped her. Therefore, when the 26 August 1856 the exiled Decembrists was given full amnesty, Poggio stayed in Siberia for a while to return home wealthy person. Doing business Decembrists in exile was prohibited by law, but they have found ways around this. So, in 1853, to search for gold company was established consisting of S.P. Trubetskoy, N.D. Sverbeeva, A.V. Poggio and nephew of the last - A.I. Poggio, an eldest son of Joseph Poggio, a prominent Decembrist died in exile by that time. The uncle led the business, and the nephew performed representative functions. Soon, the number of workers at the mine reached to 120, Poggio was going to employ competent people for the exploration of gold in the upper reaches of the Angara and the Vitim. Constantly complained of her correspondents to lack of resources and the mining products, including powder to blow up rocks. However, hopes for success did not come true and after a short period of inspiration from the first extraction of pounds of gold sand, «Dark days» came and in 1859 the company had ceased to exist. The failures of the Decembrists in business in Siberia linked to the lack of experience in this field, little spare capitals and high moral principles prevented them from achieving success.

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