Vitte Sergey Yulievich Biography

From a year until the end of his life, he occupied the mansion of K. Schilomberg on 5 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, 5. Biography of Sergei Yulyevich originates in the Caucasus, in Tiflis, June 17 29 in a new style of the year. He was born in a poor family of provincial nobles. Father by nationality - a native of the Baltic Germans, received the noble title in the middle of the 19th century, and along the line of the mother, the genealogy left for the famous princes Dolgoruky.

The family had five children - three sons and two daughters. Childhood passed with the maternal grandfather. Grandma taught her grandson to the basics of literacy, giving an original education. Having entered the Tiflis gymnasium, Sergei Witte did not differ in brilliant behavior and craving for the exact sciences, but preferred fencing, music and riding lessons. The initial attempt to enter the University of Odessa failed, but in the year he entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of the University of Novorossiysk, after which he entered the post of specialist in the operation of railways in the Odessa Railway Department.

The career went up. Witte receives an appointment to the post of head of the Service of the Service of the Society of the South-Western Railways, and at the end of the X railway manager gets acquainted with Emperor Alexander III and later at his request holds the post of head of the newly formed railway department under the Ministry of Finance. In the public service, despite the contradictory attitude of the court and other statesmen to his own person and the policy pursued, quickly becomes the Minister of Railways, and in the year, he receives his appointment to the post of Minister of Finance.

Holding a high post, Witte continues the promotion of railways, redeems lines to state property. One of the achievements of Witte is called forcing the construction of the Trans -Siberian Railway. Sergey Yulievich is the author of the monetary reform of the year. Russia received a solid currency provided by gold, which strengthened its position at the world level and attracted investors.

An important contribution to the economy is made by the introduction of the wine monopoly of the state, which ensured the flow of funds to the budget. His merit is a working legislation that involved a limitation of working time. He considered it necessary to reform the peasant community as a relic of the past. Sergei Yulievich advocated that educated people with an inquisitive sharp mind fall into the government.

The minister achieved the right to choose employees according to merits, and not by the presence of noble titles. Witte belonged to the supporters of the bourgeoisie, a quote of the Minister that most of our nobles - a bunch of degenerates who were careing for their own benefits against folk remedies became aphorism. Nicholas II who came to power, did not like the minister, turned a blind eye to a provocative campaign against Sergei Yulievich, but Nikolai could not do without him, which was annoying even more.

However, Witte reciprocated the emperor. For the minister, Alexander III remained the ideal of the autocracy. Witte was not only a wonderful business executive, but also a brilliant diplomat. The task of concluding a peace treaty with the Japanese was on the shoulder only to him, and he concluded the Portusmut world, which ended the Russian-Japanese war-years. Later, Roosevelt will say: "If Witte were born an American, he would certainly become president." In the year, Sergei Yulievich joined the honorary but actually nominal position of the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, at which he no longer solved anything.

In the year, it finally resigned of his own free will.