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Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703-1811 (Russian and East European Studies) by Robert E. Jones is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In eighteenth-century Russia, as elsewhere in Europe, bread was a dietary staple—truly grain was the staff of economic, social, and political life. Early on Tsar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg to export goods from Russia's vast but remote interior and by doing so to drive Russia's growth and prosperity. But the new city also had to be fed with grain brought over great distances from those same interior provinces. In this compelling account, Robert E. Jones chronicles how the unparalleled
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- Author
- Robert E. Jones
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822978718
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Business, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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