Connecting the British, Russian and German Empires: Th e Family of British Vice-consul John Greaves at the Forefront of Modernization in South Ukraine
Journal: Ukraina Moderna
Year: 2018

John Greaves, a British subject, was an important actor of modernization in the Russian Empire. He arrived at the port of Berdyansk as a representative of the British company Clayton &amp; Shuttleworth, and he established a plant of agricultural machinery there, which became the largest plant of this kind in Europe. In 1877 Greaves offered himself for the position of German vice- consul in Berdyansk. In 1907 he became a vice-consul of the British Empire, and kept this post until 1918. Greaves an