The perseverance flour mills, Elizabethgrad: Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

摘要

In 1879 an English engineer, Walter Pridgeon, wrote a report for The Miller (March 3, page 20) describing the Perseverance Flour Mills. He had been working for the engineering firm of Bellino, Fenderich and Co, known for building ships for the RussianImperial Navy. Originally based in Odessa, the firm moved deeper into Russia to Rostov on Don. The Perseverance Mills were built in Elizabethgrad, since 2016 known as Kropyvnytskyi. Located about 100 miles north of Odessa, it was an important trade centre on the Inhul River in Ukraine (then part of Russia).Russia, described in history and public opinion as "unfortunately more prominent as a prosecutor of war on a colossal scale than as a promoter of the arts of peace," nevertheless was unique with its enormous reserves of grain to export.