At first, he opened the small wholesale warehouses usual for that time, by the end of the 1990s he had acquired a supermarket, and in 2001 he decided to build a really large store, the first of its kind in the northern capital, but he did not have enough money for the project. Petersburg entrepreneur Oleg Zherebtsov, who has been engaged in trade since 1993. It was then that Dmitry Kostygin arrived.įounded "Lenta" St. Financial savings, however, allowed him to do something more ambitious. In Russia, Meyer was initially engaged in buying and renting communal apartments and even founded a small hotel chain called Rand House - in honor of the author of the bestseller Atlant Shrugged. Petersburg, renounced US citizenship, bought St. In the late 1990s, Meyer came to the attention of the FBI, was suspected of having links with the mafia, in 1999 he moved to Russia, to St. Kitts and Nevis, a small island state that issues citizenship to everyone for a small amount without delay. Meyer says that he considers himself "practically Russian," but he did not learn the language, and did not accept Russian citizenship - the businessman has a passport of St. But there is also a more practical explanation: the US has too high taxes for those with businesses abroad. "In America, this is hardly possible," Meyer summarizes. Petersburg, right in the middle of the street, a stray dog tore his shirt, and a girl watching a scene from a street kiosk went out to him with a needle in her hands and helped sew clothes. Why? "America is going to the bottom like the Titanic, and Russia has a future," Meyer argues in an interview with Forbes. He married a Russian woman, had children and even renounced American citizenship. It is not surprising that once he decided to call on his homeland of Rand - in St.
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Meir traveled extensively and read books by her favorite writer, Ayn Rand, an emigrant from Russia who sang of free enterprise. In America, Meyer never got his own business or family.ġ990s: A preacher of Randianism in Russia
shareholders įirst he studied history, then passed the law exam and worked for 10 years in the prosecutor's office in San Diego. His father, August Meyer Sr., the heir to the Midwest Television media holding and the financial company First Busey, was even on the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans in 1991. August Meyer is an ex-co-owner of the Lenta retail chain, an investor in Dream Industries.īorn in Illinois ( USA) and grew up in a very wealthy family.
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