DEMIDOV FAMILY MINING WORKS IN TAGIL Archive of documents of the Joint-Stock Company of the Nizhny Tagil and Lunyevka Mining and Mechanical Works of the Heirs of P.P. Demidov, Prince of San Donato. [France, 1920s–1940s]

The archive comprises: - Register of provisional share certificates of the Joint-Stock Company, recording certificates issued to shareholders upon the establishment of the company or during share subscriptions. The register may include certificate numbers, the number and nominal value of shares, and other relevant particulars. - Minutes, extracts and registers of shareholders’ meetings. The enterprise was nationalised following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Certain documents bear the seal of the Russian Consulate General in Paris. The list of shareholders includes: Elim Pavlovich Demidov (1868–1943) – Russian diplomat and member of the Demidov family, Prince of San Donato and Actual State Councillor. Eldest son of Pavel Pavlovich Demidov and Princess Maria Meshcherskaya. Known for his support of the Russian chess movement. Prince Paul Karađorđević of Yugoslavia (1893–1976) – Regent of Yugoslavia from 9 October 1934 to 27 March 1941, during the minority of King Peter II. Members of the Noghera family – Counts Nikolai, Albert, Ivan and Amedeo, and Countess Elena. Abram Yudelevich (Yurievich) Dobry (1867–1936) – Russian industrialist and public figure. Director of several factories and companies in the sugar industry, and manager of the Kiev branch of the Russian Bank for Foreign Trade. The shareholders also included other, lesser-known descendants of noble families of the Russian Empire, notably the Struve, Raevsky, Radkov-Rozhkov and Kestlin families. Institutional shareholders included the Russian Bank for Foreign Trade and the Caucasian Bank.