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Title (English with transliteration) |
Sergei Iul’evich, Count Witte, 1849-1915 |
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Title (Cyrillic) |
Сергей Юльевич Витте, 1849-1915 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject (personal name) |
Vitte, S.IU. (Sergei Iul'evich), graf, 1849-1915. |
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Subject (personal name (Cyrillic)) |
Витте, Сергей Юльевич, граф, 1862-1911. |
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Subject (naf personal name) |
Witte, S. IU. (Sergei IUl'evich), graf, 1849-1915. |
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Geographic subject (country) |
Russia |
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Coverage date |
1849-06-29/1915-03-13 |
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Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
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Legacy record ID |
satjrnl-m61 |
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Part of collection |
Russian Satirical Journals Collection |
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Part of subcollection |
People Collection |
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Type |
images |
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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. |
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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. |
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Repository name |
Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California |
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Repository address |
IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735 |
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Repository email |
imrc@usc.edu |
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Contributing entity |
University of Southern California |
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Filename |
SJP-Photo-Witte~01.jpg |
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Archival file |
Volume29/SJP-Photo-Witte~01.jpg |
