Download or read book Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia: A Biography written by Sidney Harcave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is the first biography of Witte in English.