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Merchant Wives, Noblewomen, Magnates: Women Entrepreneurs in 19th Century Russia

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This book will convince those who believe that women in 19th-century Russia were solely concerned with housework and child rearing, while men reigned supreme in the business world. Based on her many years of research, historian Galina Ulyanova shows that both merchants’ daughters and representatives of all economically active classes were well versed in matters of finance and concluding deals. The social status of female entrepreneurs varied from townswomen and soldiers’ wives who ran small craft enterprises and retail stores to magnates and eminent merchants, such as the noblewoman Nadezhda Stenbock-Fermor, owner of steel rolling mills, and Maria Morozova, owner of the largest textile factories in Russia. What was the attitude of these women toward wealth? What business development strategies did they choose? Were these women able to combine firmness in business with gentleness and care in the family? The author answers these questions by citing dozens of fantastic stories of female 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 fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of seven books on the history of merchants and charity.
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