Merchants, noblemen, magnates. Women-entrepreneurs in Russia of the XIX century

Those who believe that in Russia of the 19th century women were engaged in purely housekeeping and raising children, and in the business world, men were ruined undividedly, this book will convince the opposite. Based on his 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 conclusions of transactions. The social status of entrepreneurs ranged from philistines and soldiers who managed small craft enterprises and retail stores, to the magnates and eminent merchants, as the owner of steel-rolling plants, the noblewoman Nadezhda Stanbok-Fermore and the mistress of the largest textile factories in Russia Maria Morozova. What was the attitude of these women to wealth? What business development strategies did they choose? Was the entrepreneurs managed to combine hardness in business with softness and family care? The author answers these questions, citing dozens of fantastic stories of female success that turn our ideas about the place of women in a pre -revolutionary society. Galina Ulyanova is a 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