Founded in 1826 by the Lenov merchants as a home family confectionery workshop for the production of caramel,[2] the workshop was located in the area of old Moscow - in Zamoskvorechye, on Malaya Bolvanovka street (2nd Novokuznetskiy lane)[3] next to the Church of the Savior on Bolvany. The main products of the first years were lollipops, with the workshop processing 80 kilograms of sugar a day. Lollipops were sold at festivities, fairs and auctions. Gradually, the production of confectionery products increased. In 1830, Antip Lenov opened his own confectionery.
In 1886, the workshop passed to Lenov's grandson - Georgy (1853-1912) and his wife Catherine Sergeevna Lenova. Since that time, the family gradually bought up confectionery establishments around them and by 1895, employed 69 people.
