Since 1913, the elegant limestone fasade of the Victoria Palace Hotel has been a landmark at the heart of Paris's Left Bank. On a quiet street just off the bustling rue de Rennes, it embodies the enduring qualities of a neighbourhood renowned throughout the world for its mix of luxury, artistic vitality and sheer enjoyment of life.

- Member of Moscow City Duma, Member of the Council of Moscow Discount Bank, Member of the Committee of Moscow Cattle and Meat Exchange, Member of Moscow Society of Spreading of Commercial Education, Chairman and Trustee of the Bakhrushins Brothers House of Rent-Free Flats at Sofiiskaya Quay in Moscow, Member of the Council of Russian Mutual Insurance Union, Senior Man of the Church of St. Nikolai the Wonder-Worker in Kuznetsy in Moscow, Trustee of the Bakhrushins Brothers Municipal Handicraft College, Joint Owner of Theatre "Aquarium" in Moscow

- Manufactory-Councillor, the First Guild Merchant of Bogorodsk, latter of Pokrovsk, Chief of the Nikolskaya Manufactory Association "Savva Morozov's Son and Co", Chairman of Moscow Exchange Committee(1868-1876), Chairman of the Council of Moscow Merchant Company of Swap Credit(1869-1874), Member of the Council of Moscow Merchant Bank

From left to right are sitting: Petrov A.K., Zevakin A.I., Yakovlev I.Ya., Balin Vladimir Asigritovich, Balin Nikolai Asigritovich, Balin Valentin Asigritovich, Pashkov Ya.M., Zhukov N.I. Are standing: Tolmachev A.G., Gusev V.I., Ivanov I.I., Sokolov A.P., Kalabin I.I., Bychkov N.V., Zevakin G.I., Pereletov I.G., Zevakin V.I. Balin Nikolai Asigritovich - Councillor of State, Manufactory-Councillor, Member of the Council of Moscow Trade Bank, Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Member of the Council of Russian Mutual Insurance Union. Balin Vladimir Asigritovich - Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Director of the Association of Shuisko-Tezinskaya Manufactory. Balin Valentin Asigritovich - Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Director of the Association of Shu

Pavlovsky Posad

- Owner of the Banking House in Warsaw, Founder of the St.Petersburg Discount and Loan Bank(1869) and Commercial Bank in Warsaw(1870)

Are sitting: the 4th to the left - Balin Vladimir Asigritovich, the 5th to the left - Balin Nikolai Asigritovich, the 6th to the left - Balin Valentin Asigritovich - Directors of the Managing Committee of the Association. Balin Nikolai Asigritovich - Councillor of State, Manufactory-Councillor, Member of the Council of Moscow Trade Bank, Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Member of the Council of Russian Mutual Insurance Union. Balin Vladimir Asigritovich - Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Director of the Association of Shuisko-Tezinskaya Manufactory. Balin Valentin Asigritovich - Director of the Managing Committee of "The Balin A.Ya. Association of Yuzhskaya Manufactory", Director of the Association of Shu

Illustration from the Album " Description of Dneprovsky Plant of the Southern-Russian Dneprovskoe Metallurgical Company". Edition of the Company. 1908.

Are standing, to the left: Shokros Vladimir Ivanovich, Gan Adolf Fedorovich. Are sitting, to the left: Prove Ivan Karlovich, Soldatenkov Kozma Terentievich and Baron Knop Andrei Lvovich. Prove Ivan (Iogann) Karlovich (1833-1901) - Councillor of Commerce, Founder of the Association of Krengolmskaya Manufactory (since 1883), Joint Owner of the Firm "Lyudvig Knop", Member of the Council of Moscow Merchant Bank, Member of the Council of Russian-Chinese Bank, Director of Moscow Company of Fire Insurance (1875-1901), Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Association "Emil Tsindel" (since 1874), Member of the Managing Committee of the Association of Ekateringofskaya Cotton Mill, Member of the Managing Committee of the Association of Izmailovskaya Manufactory, Member of the Managing Committee of the Association of Voznesenskaya Manufactory of S.Lepeshkin's Sons, Member of the Managing Committee of the