Background
Davidov was born in Moscow on August 23, 1867, the son of mathematician and educator August Davidov originally from Courland.
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Davidov was born in Moscow on August 23, 1867, the son of mathematician and educator August Davidov originally from Courland.
In 1891 Davidov was graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Saint St. Petersburg and also from the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory with a concentration in cello and composition.
He participated in the staging of the operas The Maid of Pskov and Boris Godunov. He was head of the Commercial Bank of Saint St. Petersburg from 1909 to 1917, and was a member or chairman of boards of many companies with which the bank was involved, engaged in gold mining, coal mining, machinery manufacturing, and other industries. As head of the Commercial Bank, and working jointly with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, Davidov participated in the creation of various monopolies.
After the Russian Revolutions of 1917, Davidov fled to exile in Germany.
He became a Freemason on February 24, 1922, and died in Berlin on March 6, 1940. Davidov was married twice, first (in 1895) to the Georgian noblewoman Tamara Eristova.
He had three children, Yuri (born 1897), Cyrus (born 1900), and Tatiana (born 1902).
Davidov served in the Special Office for Cr in the Ministry of Finance and from the late 1890s was a member of the board of trustees of the Saint St. Petersburg International Bank. He was a board member of the Electric Lighting Company (formed in 1886) and that company"s Electric Power Division, which built power plants in Baku. Davidov was a member of the board of the Saint St. Petersburg Stock Exchange and, from 1913, a state councilor (a civilian rank equivalent to the military rank of brigadier general).