The Memoirs of Count Witte

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Countess Witte's Foreword -- I.V. Hessen's Introduction: Excerpt -- A.L. Sidorov's Introduction: Excerpts -- Volume I, 1849-1903 -- I My Family -- II General Fadeev and His Times -- III Some Caucasian Memories -- IV My Education -- V The Odessa Railroad, 1870-1879 -- VI St. Petersburg, 1879-1880: Service on the Southwestern Railroad, My First Marriage, the Baranov Commission, Railroad Kings -- VII Kievan Years, 1880-1889: Service with the Southwestern Railroad

VIII Kievan Years, 1880-1889: The Holy Brotherhood -- IX Kiev in the 1880s: More or Less Interesting Personalities -- X Kiev in the 1880s: Contacts with Emperor Alexander III and His Family -- XI Director of the Department of Railroad Affairs, 1889-1891 -- XII St. Petersburg, 1889-1891: People and Incidents -- XIII Minister of Ways and Communications, 1891-1892 -- XIV Family Matters -- XV Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshcherskii -- XVI Fellow Ministers and Other High Officials, 1889-1894 -- XVII Minister of Finance: Appointment and Personnel -- XVIII Emperor Alexander III

XIX My Work as Minister of Finance under Emperor Alexander III -- XX The Imperial Court -- XXI Last Days of Emperor Alexander III -- XXII A New Reign Begins -- XXIII The New Emperor's First Personnel Changes, 1894-1895 -- XXIV The Sino-Russian Treaty of 1896 -- XXV The Khodynka Tragedy -- XXVI May-October 1896: Liquor Monopoly, Nizhnii Novgorod Exhibition, the Gold Standard, the Bosphorus -- XXVII Some New Faces, Some New and Unfortunate Policies, 1896-1898 -- XXVIII The Visiting Dignitaries, 1897 -- XXIX Origins of the War with Japan, 1897-1900

XXX Foreign Affairs, 1898-1900: The Hague Peace Conference, the Fashoda Incident, a New Foreign Minister -- XXXI A New Minister of Interior and Some Minor Developments, 1898-1900 -- XXXII The Imperial Court: The Succession Question, Changing Mores -- XXXIII On the Road to War and Revolution, 1901-1903 -- XXXIV My Departure from the Office of Minister of Finance -- Appendix A Some of My Achievements as Minister of Finance -- Appendix B My Work on the Peasant and Nobility Questions, 1893-1905 -- Appendix C Letter from Witte to Nicholas II Concerning the Proposed Conference on the Peasant Question

Appendix D The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War: Excerpts -- Volume II, 1903-1906 -- I On the Eve of War -- II My Differences with Plehve -- III The First Months of War, January-July 1904 -- IV The ""Political Spring"" and Bloody Sunday -- V War and Peace, February-September 1905 -- VI Return to Russia: Paris, Berlin, Rominten -- VII General Strike -- VIII The October Manifesto -- IX My First Ten Days as Premier -- X Impediments to My Work: General Trepov and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich -- XI The Restoration of Order -- XII Cabinet Changes

XIII The Loan That Saved Russia's Financial Strength

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