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    Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte (Russian: Сергей Юльевич Витте, romanized: Sergey Yulyevich Vitte, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈjʉlʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈvʲitːɛ]; 29 June [O.S. 17...
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    served in one of the three Assistant Minister of Finance positions under Sergei Witte. After resigning from the position, he served as Imperial Secretary until...
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    the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernisation based on foreign loans...
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    variety of sectors of society of the need for reform. Politicians such as Sergei Witte had succeeded in partially industrializing Russia but failed to adequately...
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    officially became a fully-fledged head of government. Nicholas appointed Graf Sergei Witte as his first "prime minister". From 1905 the prime minister received...
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    Tsar Nicholas II (1868–1918, ruled 1894–1917), under the influence of Sergei Witte (1849–1915), on 30 October [O.S. 17 October] 1905 as a response to the...
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    Constantine, The Flight of the Romanovs, p. 41 Witte, Sergei (1990). Memoirs of Count Sergei Witte. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 240. Bouton de Fernandez-Azabal...
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  • Russia between 1901 and 1903 during the tenure of Minister of Finance Sergei Witte. The reforms aimed to transform the traditional obshchina form of Russian...
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    opposition to the program, he left the position in 1899. In April 1906, Sergei Witte, a reformist, was succeeded by Goremykin. In the Russian Constitution...
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    appointment of railway manager and future Prime Minister of the Russian Empire Sergei Witte as the Director of State Railways. The imperial family was en route from...
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    second session of the Council of Ministers for six more months; Count Sergei Witte participated on both entities until the abolition of the committee on...
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    perishing from starvation. Vyshnegradsky was succeeded by Count Sergei Witte in 1892. Witte began by raising revenues through a monopoly on alcohol, which...
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    felt that it undermined their authority). The Prime Minister, Count Sergei Witte, backed the objections, but was unable to close down the experiment because...
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    Takahira Kogorō. The Russian delegation was led by former Finance Minister Sergei Witte, who was assisted by the former Ambassador to Japan Roman Rosen and the...
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  • ensemble cast includes Tom Baker as Grigori Rasputin, Laurence Olivier as Sergei Witte, Brian Cox as Leon Trotsky, Ian Holm as Vasily Yakovlev, Vivian Pickles...
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    Cabinet of Sergei Witte – composition of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, under the leadership of Sergei Witte, worked from November 6,...
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    Ivanovich Rossi, Prince Garsevan Chavchavadze, a Georgian aristocrat, Sergei Witte, and other famous Russians are preserved. During the Revolution, Kollontai...
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  • Witte (born 1984), German field hockey player Russ Witte (1916–2016), American swimmer Sergei Witte (1849–1915), Russian policy-maker Terry L. Witte (born...
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    (1789–1860), was a Russian noblewoman who was the grandmother of both Sergei Witte and Madame Blavatsky. Helene was the daughter of Prince Paul Vassilyevich...
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    pressure from the Russian Revolution of 1905, on August 6, 1905 (O.S.), Sergei Witte (appointed by Nicholas II to manage peace negotiations with Japan after...
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    to his Memoirs Sergei Witte did not force the Tsar to sign this Manifesto; moreover he states nobody knew who wrote the Manifesto. Witte suggests a member...
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    maint: location missing publisher (link) Harcave, Sidney (2004). Count Sergei Witte and the twilight of imperial Russia : a biography. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E...
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    river. The absent-minded Goremykin had been described by his predecessor Sergei Witte as a bureaucratic nonentity. After two months, Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov...
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  • Under the pressure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, on 6 August 1905, Sergei Witte issued a manifesto about the convocation of the Duma, initially thought...
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    from the treasury.[citation needed] On June 6, 1894, Finance Minister Sergei Witte initiated reform of the State Bank with the adoption of a new charter...
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  • responsible to it. They were generally allied with the governments of Sergei Witte in 1905-1906 and Pyotr Stolypin in 1906–1911, but they criticised the...
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    Council and What a Freedom!, over forty portrait studies, and portraits of Sergei Witte and Vyacheslav von Plehve. In 1904 he gave a speech at a memorial gathering...
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    December 1908 Monarch Nicholas II Prime Minister Sergei Witte Chairman of the Committee of Ministers Sergei Witte Preceded by Nikolai Kleigels Succeeded by Nikolay...
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    powerful Russian Finance Minister Sergei Witte had larger visions for the region than just a military garrison. Witte was overseeing the development of...
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    Russian Cabinet, Bezobrazov was at first thwarted by Finance Minister Sergei Witte, who convinced the Tsar to shut the project down, suspecting Bezobrazov's...
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