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Title (English with transliteration)	Sergei Iul’evich, Count Witte, 1849-1915
Title (Cyrillic)	Сергей Юльевич Витте, 1849-1915
Biography (English)	Sergei Iul’evich, Count Witte, 1849-1915. Statesman and diplomat. Born 29.VI (17.VI, O.S.) 1849 in Tiflis, Georgia. Died 13.III (28.II, O.S.) 1915 in Petrograd.
Chronology (English)	Studied mathematics at Novorossiiskii University (now Odessa State University); 1889 established railway department in Ministry of Finance, leading quickly to positions of minister of communications and minister of finance; Hired Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians as subordinates, against typical bureaucratic prejudice; Devoted much energy to the Trans-Siberian railway; wanted to link European and Asiatic Russia, bring progress to rural areas, and serve as intermediary between Western Europe and the Far East; 1892-1903 Minister of Finance. This duration known as the “Witte Period”; August 1903 removed from Ministry of Finance. Despite Witte’s successes, international conflicts resulted in reduced foreign loans to Russia. Additionally, peasant strikes and a poor relationship with Nicholas II contributed to his removal; Subsequently appointed to chairman of the Committee of Ministers; July 1905 appointed chief Russian plenipotentiary for peace negotiations with Japan; September 1905 signed the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War; 1905 convinced Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto; 1905-1906 first constitutional Prime Minister of the Russian Empire; April 1906 forced to resign; 1914-1915 opposed Russia’s entry into World War I; 1915 died in Petrograd.
Portrait description	Sergey Yulyevich Witte, 1849-1915. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. Call number: LOT 2624, no. 34 [P&P]. Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08832. No known restrictions on publication. SJP-Photographs-Witte~01.
References	portrait: SJP-Photo-Witte~01; satjrnl-m14; article/chapter: "Witte, Sergey Yulyevich, Graf." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 25 Feb. 2009 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-7981>.; book: Mehlinger, Howard D., and John M. Thompson. Count Witte and the Tsarist Government in the 1905 Revolution. Indiana University international studies. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana U.P., 1972.; book: Vitte (Witte), S. IU. and Sidney Harcave. The Memoirs of Count Witte. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1990.
Subject (personal name)	Vitte, S.IU. (Sergei Iul'evich), graf, 1849-1915.
Subject (personal name (Cyrillic))	Витте, Сергей Юльевич, граф, 1862-1911.
Subject (naf personal name)	Witte, S. IU. (Sergei IUl'evich), graf, 1849-1915.
Geographic subject (country)	Russia
Coverage date	1849-06-29/1915-03-13
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Legacy record ID	satjrnl-m61
Part of collection	Russian Satirical Journals Collection
Part of subcollection	People Collection
Type	images
Rights	Public Domain. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is attributed to IMRC, University of Southern California and source in the manner specified by the publisher.
Access conditions	To consult material in print, contact IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735, fax (213) 740-8550 or email imrc@usc.edu.
Repository name	Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California
Repository address	IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735
Repository email	imrc@usc.edu
Filename	SJP-Photo-Witte~01.jpg
Archival file	Volume29/SJP-Photo-Witte~01.jpg

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