Early Life and Career
Born Pinches Borutsch (Russian: Пи́нхус Бо́рух) in Potscheff near Chernigov and raised to Shklov, a small provincial town in (currently Belarus) and Mogilev, the biggest town of the three in the Russian Empire (currently Belarus), Axelrod was the son of a Jewish innkeeper.
In 1875 in Geneva, Axelrod married his former private student Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer. A student himself, Axelrod was Kaminer's and her sister 's tutor. Despite severe financial hardship during the first years, the marriage proved to be successful. They had three children: Vera (22.11.1875), Alexander (18.07.1879) and Sofia (14.11.1881). Nadezhda Ivanovna Axelrod-Kaminer died in 1906.
In the mid-1880s Axelrod established his own small company producing kefir. By the end of the 1890s, Axelrod's company had offices in Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, which provided steady income and allowed him to support revolutionaries. In 1908, Axelrod sold his company in exchange for the retirement payments to him from the new owner.
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