CHARLES RABENECK, BORN 1888
ANGLO RUSSIAN BUSINESSMAN
This account of the Ludwig Rabeneck cotton factories was written in the 1920s by Charles (1888-1967), seen here with his wife Olga Trapp (1893-1987). Charles worked as a director in the factory until his family’s escape to Finland from the Bolsheviks in 1919. He and Olga later had careers with the British War Office, notably in the post-war administration of Austria, when their perfect Russian, English, German and French were valuable. Although Charles’ memoir is similar that of Edouard, his father, it contains more technical detail about the cotton works.