{"id":31118,"date":"2018-08-09T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=31118"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T09:09:27","slug":"the_brothers_polyakov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/the_brothers_polyakov\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Polyakov: From the Shtetls of Poland to Russian Nobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could easily have been a Chekhov play or a novel by Dostoyevsky \u2013 <em>The Brothers Polyakov<\/em>. Their lives certainly provided enough drama.<\/p>\n<p>Yakov, one of Russia\u2019s greatest Jewish tycoons, was the oldest of the three brothers Polyakov, all prominent Russian bankers and industrialists. His <a href=\"http:\/\/prozhito.org\/person\/953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diary<\/a>, preserved in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, was recently published online, all made possible thanks to the hard work of the volunteers of the Russian-based project \u201cProzhito.&#8221; Spanning forty-three years and searchable by year, this chronicle reflects the daily anxieties and joys of a wealthy Jewish businessman in 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Brothers Polyakov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Polyakov family originated in the shtetl of Dubrovno (today\u2019s Belarus), to which Yakov\u2019s grandfather had moved from Poland in 1783. Hence the name \u201cPolyakov\u201d- the Russified version of the Jewish family name \u201cPolyak,\u201d meaning Pole. The three brothers spread throughout Russia: Samuil lived in St. Petersburg, Lazar in Moscow, and Yakov in distant Taganrog, where he represented the Polyakov\u2019s interests in the south.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31119\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31119\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000006-1864-1845-1-377x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000006-1864-1845-1-377x600.jpg 377w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000006-1864-1845-1-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000006-1864-1845-1-768x1221.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from Yakov Polyakov&#8217;s diary, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yakov\u2019s diary meticulously notes his trips, meetings, and family matters. Though his records are often short and sketchy, with many featuring no more than one line, they number more than four thousand entries. Polyakov\u2019s Russian is somewhat clumsy and grammatically problematic. One of his jottings explains why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs soon as we moved from Dubrovna to Orsha, Mother set about organizing our schooling and education at home. This was quite unusual for the time, as there was nothing but heders and melamdim, and nobody had any thought or hope of learning even the slightest Russian or arithmetic. When we moved, I was twelve, my brother Samuil was ten, and my brother Lazar only three. Mother found a teacher who was considered highly educated and therefore not quite trusted to be religious enough (a Jewish communal requirement for every melamed).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yakov launched his incredible career by joining his brothers in the railway business. They supervised the construction of the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol and Voronezh-Rostov lines. In 1870, Yakov opened a trading house and established a coal mine on his estate. The mine, he claimed, ended Russia\u2019s reliance on expensive English coal to power its steamships in the Black and Azov Seas.\u00a0 The Polyakov brothers subsequently founded several banks including the Azov-Don commercial bank (in St. Petersburg), Donskoy Land Bank (in Taganrog), and the St. Petersburg-Azov Commercial Bank.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1890s, Yakov and Lazar branched out to Iran, building railways and investing in trade, industry, and banking under the aegis of the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>As the first general consul of Persia in St. Petersburg, Yakov was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services to the Shah. He tried parlaying this honor into a Russian baronial title (as the famous G\u00fcnzburg family had with their German baronial rank), but without success.<\/p>\n<p>Yakov\u2019s diary testifies to his wealth as well as his philanthropic initiatives. In 1896 he bought his wife, Amalia, a villa in Biarritz (in the south of France, playground of Europe\u2019s rich and famous) for 130,000 francs. Before investing in his own villa, he spearheaded the building of a synagogue in the resort, donating generously to bring the project to fruition. On Rosh Hashana eve of 1895, Yakov noted with satisfaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll suited well for prayer and table. We invited Brodsky, but he arranged everything separately! Showed his wealth, what he is capable of. I donated two thousand francs for the construction of the synagogue in Biarritz. Lazar Solomonovich also donated two thousand, Brodsky three thousand, so the beginning is set. May God help finish it!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31123\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31123\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Syna_Biarritz_ca_1910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Syna_Biarritz_ca_1910.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Syna_Biarritz_ca_1910-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The synagogue in Biarritz, built at Yakov&#8217;s initiative, postcard from 1910.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The synagogue was inaugurated in August 1904.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persecuted Tycoons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Yakov\u2019s wealth, his actions were in some ways as limited as Russian Jewry\u2019s as a whole. When his parents lost their sight and needed daily assistance, he couldn\u2019t get permits for relatives to come live with them in Moscow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUnfortunately, the assistants for Father weren\u2019t given permission [to reside with him]. It\u2019s painful to see [my parents] disabled. Mother is completely blind. Father is partially blind. And they cannot have two of their kin look after them? It hurts, but what can be done?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five years earlier, all Jewish craftsmen were expelled from Moscow. That Passover, Yakov called the decree \u201c[\u2026] woeful for the Jews. All the newspapers are cruelly exaggerating, ridiculing, and defaming [them], happy to see [Jews] thrown out onto the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet there were bright spots too. In late 1897, despite rising anti-Semitism, Yakov and Lazar were awarded hereditary noble titles, making them one of Russia\u2019s very few noble Jewish families. Their relatives in the countryside, however, still couldn\u2019t leave the Pale of Settlement. Russian Jewish life was in constant flux, with changing regulations constantly making their lives more difficult until the revolution of February 1917. The provisional government that replaced the monarchy finally abolished all anti-Jewish laws making Jews equal citizens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31127\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31127\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000132-11-april-1891-370x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000132-11-april-1891-370x600.jpg 370w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000132-11-april-1891-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000132-11-april-1891-768x1245.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from Yakov Polyakov&#8217;s diary, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>On the Brink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yakov\u2019s business practices were criticized &#8211; perhaps sometimes deservedly &#8211; but there were also anti-Semitic outbursts. The following citation, from a note on Yakov Polyakov and the Jews of southern Russia received by the state comptroller\u2019s office in the late 1880\u2019s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Jews of the Pryazovye district [straddling Ukraine and Russia\u2019s Rostov Oblast], which has always been full of Greeks and Armenians, could never engage permanently in any trade but alcohol, until the Jew Ya. S. Polyakov arrived there to build the Kharkov-Azov and Voronezh-Rostov railroads.<\/p>\n<p>Having constructed these railroads in ramshackle fashion using government-guaranteed bonds, this Polyakov remains the owner of the entire stock (also government-guaranteed) of both railroads, making him their true master [\u2026].<\/p>\n<p>Along with Polyakov, his many relatives and masses of Jews came to the region and settled there, exploiting his protection for a variety of geschefts [funny business] and tricks at the locals\u2019 expense, all while evading our every law restricting Jewish rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31125\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000110-9-oct-1889-378x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000110-9-oct-1889-378x600.jpg 378w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000110-9-oct-1889-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/P238-000110-9-oct-1889-768x1218.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from Yakov Polyakov&#8217;s diary, The Central Archives fo the History of the Jewish People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Considering their modest background, the brothers Polyakov achieved a great deal. Samuil died young, leaving his family a substantial inheritance. Yakov and Lazar, however, lost most of their fortunes in Russia\u2019s economic crisis at the turn of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Yakov spent his final years in Biarritz until his death in 1909. His two daughters, who lived in his French residence after his death, perished in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to Olga Lempert for translating the diary entries from Russian to English.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post was originally published in Segula, The Jewish History Magazine, Issue 97, June 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakov Polyakov was a rare breed. 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