ABSTRACT
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 Empress Alexandra, along with his own notorious cousin, Madam blavatsky, the "priestess of the occult".
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Volume I|349 pages
1849-1903
chapter 1_6|11 pages
St. Petersburg, 1879–1880
Service on the Southwestern Railroad, My First Marriage, the Baranov Commission, Railroad Kings
chapter 1_26|10 pages
May–October 1896
Liquor Monopoly, Nizhnii Novgorod Exhibition, the Gold Standard, the Bosphorus
chapter 1_30|4 pages
Foreign Affairs, 1898–1900
The Hague Peace Conference, the Fashoda Incident, a New Foreign Minister
part Volume II|267 pages
1903–1906
part |124 pages
Volume III
