Nizhny Lomov

The Virga Estate

Virga – The Kamendrovsky Estate in Nizhny Lomov.

The Kamendrovsky family had built a large house of pine trunks on a high foundation. The house was not far from the post office, roughly where the boiler room nowadays stands. In the territory of the post office, in the courtyard, in a small two-story brick building (now there is a post office) there was an energy installation that lit the Kamendrovsky house and a small square around it.

(Каблуков Ю.В., see below)

The Factories

The Match Factory in Nizhny Lomov.

From 1887 onwards, Kamendrovsky began to mechanize the production of matches sequentially. A stone building was built, a wooden boiler house, a locomotive and woodworking machines were purchased and installed.

(Каблуков Ю.В., see below)
Second match factory in Verky Lomov, built in 1899
The only matchbox left

FAMILY ALBUM PICTURES

Mother and Father

Mother Elena and Father Feodor

Family Portrait

Left to right: Feodor, Alexandra, Mother Elena, Baby Dmitry, Father Feodor, Vladimir, Ivan

Ivan

Dmitry


The car

The Kamendrovsky Car – inside the car are four of the children.

In the Estate Gardens

Left to right: Vladimir, Feodor, Lydia, Dmitry, with governess and nanny in the back, Virga Estate gardens.

Lydia and Dmitry

Vladimir and Feodor

Vladimir (left) and Feodor (right)

Lydia and Dmitry

Roman the Cossack, Lydia and Dmitry

Alexandra and Mother

Alexandra (left) and Mother Elena (in wheelchair) with a servant right before Kislovodsk

About the Kamendrovsky’s in Nizhny Lomov:

Kamendrovsky Family Tree

Tatyana Kadomtseva “The Fate of the Manufacturer”  (English translation, for the original in Russian, see here.)

https://plyguard.com/#history – The website of the Match Factory, which still exists today. It used to contain more information about my family, but after I reached out to them, that information was removed. However, it can still be found here and here.

История Нижнеломовского края в лицах и достопримечательностях прошлого и настоящего Нижний Ломов 2020 (History of the Nizhny Lomov region in the faces and sights of the past and present Nizhny Lomov 2020)

Каблуков Ю.В. Листая прошлых лет страницы (Годы, события, факты в истории Нижнеломовского края) Издание 2-е, исправленное и дополненное Пенза 2015 (Kablukov Yu.V. Leafing through the pages of past years (Years, events, facts in the history of the Nizhnelomov region) 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented Penza 2015)

Thanks

With special thanks to Andrey Lang for translating, helping me find the above Russian websites and for his support. спасибо большое андрей 🙂