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Kupchikha, noblewomen, magnates: Women entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Russia

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Kupchikha, noblewomen, magnates: Women entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Russia
14.99 €
This book will convince those who believe that women in 19th century Russia were engaged in purely domestic and child-rearing activities, while men ruled the business world indiscriminately. Based on her many years of research, historian Galina Ulyanova shows that both merchant daughters and representatives of all economically active estates were well versed in finance and deal-making. The social status of businesswomen ranged from burghers and soldiers who ran small craft enterprises and retail stores to tycoons and prominent merchants, such as the noblewoman Nadezhda Stenbok-Fermor, owner of steel-rolling factories, and Maria Morozova, owner of the largest textile factories in Russia. What was the attitude of these women to wealth? What business development strategies did they choose? Did the businesswomen manage to combine hardness in business with gentleness and care in the family? The author answers these questions by providing dozens of fantastic stories of women's success that turn our ideas about the place of women in pre-revolutionary society upside down. Galina Ulyanova is a doctor of historical sciences, chief research associate at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of seven books on the history of merchants and philanthropy.
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