Tradeswomen, noblewomen, magnates: Women Entrepreneurs in XNUMXth-Century Russia

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For those who believe that in XNUMXth-century Russia, women were purely housework and child-rearing, while men ruled the business world, this book will convince them otherwise. Based on her many years of research, historian Galina Ulyanova shows that both merchant daughters and representatives of all economically active classes were well versed in matters of finance and making deals. The social status of entrepreneurs varied from bourgeois women and soldiers who managed small handicraft enterprises and retail stores, to magnates and eminent merchants, such as the owner of steel-rolling factories, the noblewoman Nadezhda Stenbock-Fermor, and the mistress of the largest textile factories in Russia, Maria Morozova. What was the attitude of these women towards wealth? What business development strategies did they choose? Did the entrepreneurs manage to combine firmness in business with softness and care in the family? The author answers these questions by citing dozens of fantastic stories of female success that overturn our ideas about the place of women in pre-revolutionary society. Galina Ulyanova - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of seven books on the history of merchants and charity.

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Publication language: Russian

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