All soon discovered that plague, famine and massacres could strike in palaces as well as pits. The immigrants were housed by John Hughes in his “New Russia Company” houses, living alongside aristocrats in manors, and peasants whose homes were holes scooped in the steppe.
It rapidly gained notoriety as a hotbed of villainy, where murderers, thieves, whores and illicit love affairs flourished. John Hughes named and created Hughesovka, a town that offered opportunity. A charismatic visionary with enormous personal magnetism, John persuaded Britain’s old aristocracy and nouveau riche to invest in his venture, while concealing his greatest secret – he couldn’t write his name. He began by inviting Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes to build an ironworks on the Russian Steppe. A wealthy, successful, Victorian businessman, John left wife, family, mansion, and country to travel 1000 miles to a primitive backwater, medieval in state and outlook. In 1869, “modernising” Russian Tsar, Alexander 11 formulated a plan to drag Russia into the industrial age.
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