A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolch?nov, Based on His Diary

Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, A
Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known
commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals
from lords to laborers for more than 40 years, Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov opened a
window onto the education, work, birth, death, marriage, business, civic, holiday,
and religious practices of a social group about which little has been known. Using
the tools...