Alexander Chichkin was born in 1862 in the village of Koprino, Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl province, in the family of a pilot. With the assistance of the industrialist V. I. Blandova, he graduated from a real school, Petrovsky Agricultural Academy in 1886. After that 3 years interning at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The young entrepreneur was the first in Moscow to open a specialized dairy store. Prior to that, Moscow stores only sold cheese, and the rest of the dairy products were sold on the street and markets, directly by its manufacturers. His business developed rapidly, and soon he engaged not only in the sale, but also in the processing of milk.

In 1918, a streak of misfortunes collapsed on A. V. Chichkin: his son Alexander died under a tram, then one of the brothers died in Odessa, Ivan Vasilyevich, and the other brother Nikolay Vasilyevich, having gone to the funeral, also died by ridiculous chance ( mine elevator dairy). Chichkin went to Odessa, and then found himself in exile in France. On October 5, 1918, his enterprises were nationalized. In 1922 he returned to Soviet Russia.

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