
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
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The horse-drawn railway was widely used as a mode of public transport in the 19th century. Originally created in 1875, the First Society of Horse Drawn Railway joined forces with the Belgian General Company of Moscow and Russia's tramway system to create 25 lines. In Moscow, the network existed until 1912 when it was replaced by trams.
Baron Fedor Levovich Knopp (1848-1931), served on a variety of boards of banks and industrial factories. In partnership with his brother A.L. Knopp, he owned the Peterhof Cotton-Spinning Manufactory on the right bank of the Obvodny Canal. There is a proverb that found its origin among the factory workers with a play on words loosely translated: "If it's a church, you'll find a priest, if it's barracks, a bedbug, if it's a factory, a Knopp".