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Kalinkin Brewery

In the 1790s two German brewmasters from

Sweden, Abraham Krohn and Friedrich

Danielson, founded a brewery on the grounds of

the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Meanwhile

Englishman Noah Casalet started a brewery near

the Kalinkin bridge in what is now known as St.

Petersburg. In 1821 Danielson and his sons moved

to Moscow and started a brewery modeled after

the Alexander Nevsky Brewery of St. Petersburg.

In 1848 the sons of Krohn and Casalet merged and

were chartered as the Kalinkin Brewery in 1862 by

Emperor Alexander II. In 1922 control of the

brewery was assigned to a body called the United

Petrograd Consumers Organization and the

brewery was renamed

―

Stepan Razin

‖

, after the

Don River Cossack who led the peasants

‘

revolt of

1670. Today it is one of the largest breweries in Russia.

An early German made knife advertises the

Kalinkin breweries in St. Petersburg and Moscow.