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The Memoirs of Count Witte - Translated from the Original Russian Manuscript and Edited ny Abraham Yarmolinksy (Paperback)
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The Memoirs of Count Witte - Translated from the Original Russian Manuscript and Edited ny Abraham Yarmolinksy (Paperback)
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This is a complete work whose copyright is expired. All pages are
fully intact and it has been carefully reviewed. 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 then-powerful
Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic
Empress Alexandra, along with his own notorious cousin, Madam
blavatsky, the "priestess of the occult." Count Sergei Yulyevich
Witte also known as Sergius Witte, was a highly influential
policy-maker who presided over extensive industrialization within
the Russian Empire. He served under the last two emperors of
Russia. He was also the author of the October Manifesto of 1905, a
precursor to Russia's first constitution, and Chairman of the
Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Russian Empire. Witte
served as Russian Director of Railway Affairs within the Finance
Ministry from 1889-1891; and during this period, he oversaw an
ambitious program of railway construction which included the
building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Witte also obtained the
right to assign employees based on their performance, rather than
political or familial connections. In 1889, he published a paper
titled "National Savings and Friedrich List," which cited the
economic theories of Friedrich List and justified the need for a
strong domestic industry, protected from foreign competition by
customs barriers. The resulted in a new customs law for Russia in
1891, which spurred an increase in industrialization in Russia
towards the turn of the century. Tsar Alexander III appointed Witte
acting Minister of Ways and Communications in 1892. This gave him
control of the railroads in Russia and the authority to impose a
reform on the tariffs charged. However, in late 1892, Witte (whose
first wife had died in 1890) chose to remarry. The marriage was a
scandal, as Witte's second wife, Matilda Ivanovna (Isaakovna)
Lisanevich, was not only a converted Jew, but was also divorced,
and Witte had come into conflict with her husband while she was
still married. The scandal cost Witte many of his connections with
the upper nobility.
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