History

In 1730, Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky became the owner of the village Pavlovskaya Sloboda. His father was a poor organist from Lithuania. Pavel Yaguzhinsky started his career as a boot cleaner but soon made a successful career in the military. In Pavlovskaya Sloboda, Pavel Yaguzhinsky founded a factory producing cloth. His wife was Anna Gavrilovna Golovkina, who was exiled to Yakutsk for her involvement in the Lopukhina affair. This story became the basis for the film "Midshipmen, Forward!".

Under Pavel Yaguzhinsky, about 200 workers worked at the factory. In 1859 Emperor Alexander II ordered to close the state-owned cloth factory. He believed that the production of cloth on a state scale is unprofitable, and that such production should be done by private individuals. It became unprofitable to maintain such a large enterprise, because only in this period the development of production and technology became automated. In the 1850s, every fourteenth soldier in the Russian army wore a uniform made by the Pavlovsk cloth factory.