"Sergie Witte (1849-1915), who served as finance minister and later premier of Russia, was a remarkable character, a man of enormous energy and talent. He played a major role in the construction of Russia's transcontinental railroad system, pushing Russia onto the path of a bela…
A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around them--powerful Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic Empr…
The memoirs of Count Witte (1849-1915), Russian minister and statesman, cover the main political and social events in Tsarist Russia in the second part of the 19th century and up to 1912. Mentions, also, the anti-Jewish pogroms in Odessa (1871), Kiev (1888), and Kishinev (1903),…
History and biography meet in 'Tales of Imperial Russia', a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire told through the figure of Sergei Witte. His political career saw him construct the Trans-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards war with Japan and confront revolutionary disord…
History and biography meet in 'Tales of Imperial Russia', a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire told through the figure of Sergei Witte. His political career saw him construct the Trans-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards war with Japan and confront revolutionary disord…
History and biography meet in 'Tales of Imperial Russia', a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire told through the figure of Sergei Witte. His political career saw him construct the Trans-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards war with Japan and confront revolutionary disord…
