Moscow merchants. Everyday life of business people in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
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Moscow merchants. Everyday life of business people in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
29.99 €
23.99 €
Moscow merchants are not only full beards and parties with gypsies at the Yar, but also a special, lost today, approach to doing business, which amazed even much more progressive Western colleagues and partners. We often yearn for that old, merchant Moscow with its special atmosphere, where the archaic appearance of the then "financial aces" did not prevent them from creating enterprises, the success and rapid growth of which even today's oligarchs can envy. Let's dive into the world of Moscow merchants in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century, when "merchant girls" transformed into "gentlemen capitalists", into the everyday life of Moscow entrepreneurs, learn about incredible scams and banking frauds, about loud ups and downs, about noisy revelries - and no less famous charity projects: by 1900, Moscow merchants donated more to charity than their colleagues in Paris, Berlin and Vienna combined. We will learn what a significant mark this class and the legendary merchant dynasties - the Morozovs, Shchukins, Ryabushinskys, Naidenovs, Tretyakovs and many others - left in the history of not only Moscow, but all of Russia.
The book is illustrated with rare photographs, caricatures and drawings from magazines of the early 20th century, most of which are published for the first time.
The book is illustrated with rare photographs, caricatures and drawings from magazines of the early 20th century, most of which are published for the first time.
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