Did life turn out well?

What was the Russian business elite of the eyelid - a half ago? What was the business in Russian, as the rich, solved the problems with the authorities, followed the laws - or did they manage to entrepreneurs in the Russian Empire, "old" new Russians? As the Russian oligarchs and entrepreneurs of the XIX - the beginning of the 20th century lived, how many and what did they earn, what did the money spent, what did you go and what they saw, what did you think and dreamed about? They did the case and did money, sometimes losing and both. Cold and destroyed. Held the word and sculpted. We threw business partners and became sacrifices of sweat. Relations with the authorities and quarreled with them. Blonds traditions and broke them. And, like today, in the soul of some gave birth to admiration with an admixture of envy, and others were shocked by their manners and callers. The author tells about the little-known parties to the life of Russian entrepreneurs of the pre-revolutionary pore, about their inels and fate, that the life of the eyelids was far from those popular pictures, which today draw the media today, embelling the history of pre-revolutionary Russia