Bread Upon The Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade And The Russian Economy, 1703-1811 (Russian And East European Studies)

Bread upon the Waters chronicles how the unparalleled effort put into the building of a wide infrastructure to support the provisioning of the newly created but physically isolated city of St. Petersburg profoundly affected all of Russia's economic life and, ultimately, the historical trajectory of the Russian Empire as a whole.

• | Author: Robert E. Jones
• | Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0822964937
• | ISBN-13: 9780822964933